International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Zeruah

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Zeruah


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zḗ-rōō´a (צרוּעה, cerū‛āh, perhaps “leprous”): Mother of King Jeroboam I (), the Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus and Lucian omit the name in , but the long the Septuagint after Massoretic Text of reads (): “And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, a servant of Solomon, and his name was Jeroboam, and the name of his mother was Sareisa (Septuagint has Sareisa), a harlot.” See ZARETHAN.