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Zeruah
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
zḗ - rōō´a ( צרוּעה , cerū‛āh , perhaps "leprous"): Mother of King Jeroboam I ( 1 Kings 11:26 ), the Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus and Lucian omit the name in 1 Kings 11:26 , but the long the Septuagint after Massoretic Text of 1 Kings 12:24 reads ( 1 Kings 12:24 ): "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 .
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Zeruah'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/z/zeruah.html. 1915.