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Strong's #6667 - צִדְקִיָּהוּ
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Zedekiah = “Jehovah is righteous”
1) the last king of Judah renamed from ‘Mattaniah’ by Nebuchadnezzar; son of Josiah by wife Hamutal; placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar when he carried his nephew Jehoiakim in captivity
2) false prophet at the court of king Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel
3) son of Maaseiah, a false prophet in Babylon
4) son of Hananiah, one of the princes of Judah in the time of Jeremiah
5) a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
6) son of king Jehoiakim of Judah
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proper name, masculine (׳י is righteousness; compare Sabean צדקאל DHM ib., on No. 32); — σεδεκια(ς):
1 last king of Judah, מַתַּנְּיָה, changed to ׳׃ציָּ֑֫הוּ 2 Kings 24:17,18,20; 2 Kings 25:2,7 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 36:10,11; 1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 1:3; Jeremiah 21:1,3,7 37t. Jeremiah; יָּ֑ה Psalm; Jeremiah 27:12; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 29:3; Jeremiah 49:34.
2 false prophets:
a. under Ahab, יָּ֑֫הוּ 1 Kings 22:24 2 Chronicles 18:10,23; יָּ֑ה 1 Kings 22:11.
b.יָּ֑֫הוּ Jeremiah's time, Jeremiah 29:21,22.
3 יָּ֑֫הוּ prince, Jeremiah's time, Jeremiah 36:12.
4יָּ֑ה, priest, Nehemiah's time, Nehemiah 10:2 (ᵐ5 L Σεχενιας).
5יָּ֑ה, son of Jehoiachin, according to 1 Chronicles 3:16, but probably gloss, Be Song of Solomon , compare Kit.
צִדְקִיָּהוּ (“justice of Jehovah”), [Zedekiah, Zidkijah], pr.n.
(1) of a king of Judah, 600-588, b. c., to whom this name was given by Nebuchadnezzar, instead of his former name מַתַּנְיָה, 2 Kings 24:17; 1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 1:3.
(2) of a false prophet under Ahab, 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Chronicles 18:10, 23 2 Chronicles 18:23 also צִדְקִיָּה 1 Kings 22:11.
(3) Jeremiah 29:21, 22 Jeremiah 29:22.
(4) 1 Chronicles 3:16.
(5) Jeremiah 36:12.
