ZERUAH

ze-roo'-a (tseru`ah, 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 12:24b): "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 .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.