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HebrewH3379Proper Noun (Masculine)

יָֽרָבְעָם

ya.rov.am

94Occurrences
H3379Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jarobam, the name of two Israelite kings

from H7378 (רִיב) and H5971 (עַם); (the) people will contend;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A king of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of United Monarchyand Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Nebat (H5028) and Zeruah (H6871); father of: Abijah (H0029H), Nadab (H5070H) § Jeroboam = "the people will contend" 1) the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel when the kingdom split at the death of Solomon and the 10 tribes split off from Judah and Benjamin and the kingdom under Solomon's son Rehoboam; idolatry was introduced at the beginning of his reign 2) the 8th king of the northern kingdom of Israel, son of Joash, and 4th in the dynasty of Jehu; during his reign the Syrian invaders were repelled and the kingdom restored to its former borders but the idolatry of the kingdom was maintained

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

יָֽרָבְעָם appears 94 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Kings
47
2 Kings
23
2 Chronicles
18
Amos
4
1 Chronicles
1
Hosea
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 5:17BSB

All of them were reckoned in the genealogies during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.

1 Kings 14:1BSB

At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,

1 Kings 15:9BSB

In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah,

2 Chronicles 12:15BSB

Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.

2 Kings 14:16BSB

And Jehoash rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And his son Jeroboam reigned in his place.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.