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Zebidah
Excerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary, the most advanced Bible dictionary.
Mother of King Jehoiakim (2 Kgs 23:36).
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The Lexham Bible Dictionary
Zebidah, Daughter of Pedaiah
Zebidah, Daughter of Pedaiah (זְבוּדָּה‎, zevuddah). Mother of King Jehoiakim (2 Kgs 23:36).
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
Zebidah (Person)
ZEBIDAH (PERSON) [Heb zbydh (זבידה)]. Mother of Jehoiakim, King of Judah (2 Kgs 23:36). Her name occurs in the regnal formula of her son found in 2 Kgs 23:36 but is omitted from the parallel account in 2 Chr 36:5. She is the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah. Her marriage to Josiah is seen by some as evidence
Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
Zebidah
Zebidah. Mother of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Josiah’s wife and the daughter of Pedaiah (2 Kgs 23:36, kjv Zebudah).
Zebudah
Zebudah. kjv spelling of Zebidah, King Josiah’s wife, in 2 Kings 23:36.See Zebidah.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
Zebidah
Zebidah zə-bīʹdə, zebʹi-də [Heb. K zeḇîḏâ, Q zeḇûḏâ—‘gifted’]; AV ZEBUDAH. Daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah, and mother of King Jehoiakim (2 K. 23:36). In 2 Ch. 36:5 the MT lacks the name, but the LXX has Gk. Zechōra, which in Hebrew would be zeḵûrâ (Heb. k is easily confused with b,
Tyndale Bible Dictionary
Zebidah
ZEBIDAH Mother of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Josiah’s wife and the daughter of Pedaiah (2 Kgs 23:36).
Zebudah
ZEBUDAH* kjv spelling of Zebidah, King Josiah’s wife, in 2 Kings 23:36. See Zebidah.
Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
Zebidah
Zebidah (Heb. zĕḇɩ̂ḏâ)The daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah; mother of King Jehoiakim of Judah (K 2 Kgs. 23:36; Q zĕḇûḏâ).
Eerdmans Bible Dictionary
Zebidah
Zebidah [zə bīˊdə] (Heb. K zeḇîḏâ). The daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah, and the mother of King Jehoiakim of Judah (2 Kgs. 23:36; KJV “Zebudah,” following Q zeḇûḏâ).
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Zebudah
Zebu´dah (bestowed), wife of Josiah and mother of King Jehoiakim. 2 Kings 23:36. (b.c. 653.)
The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary
Zebidah
ZEBI´DAH (ze-biʹda; “given”). A daughter of Pedaiah, of Rumah, wife of Josiah and mother of King Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:36), before 608 b.c.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Zebudah
Zebudah—given, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:36).
Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Zebudah
ZEBUDAH [zeh BOO dah] (gift) — the mother of Jehoiakim, king of Judah (2 Kin. 23:36; Zebidah, NASB, REB, NIV, NRSV). Zebudah was a daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah and the wife of Josiah, king of Judah.
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Relatives
Pedaiah Father
Jehoiakim Son
Jehoiachin Grandson
Jerahmeel Grandson
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