Zeruiah
צְרוּיָהStrong’s H6870tseruyah (tse-ru-yah)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tseruyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “zeruiah”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.”
Meaning
- A woman living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.26.6
How it's translated
- zeruiah 26
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 14
- 1 Chronicles 7
- 1 Kings 3
- 1 Samuel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 2:13And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
- 2 Samuel 2:18And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
- 2 Samuel 3:39And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
- 2 Samuel 8:16And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
- 2 Samuel 14:1Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 16:9Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Hebrew dictionary
צְרוּיָה tseruyah · Zeruiah
A woman living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.26.6; daughter of: Jesse (H3448) and Nahash (H5176I); sister of: David (H1732), Eliab (H0446I), Abinadab (H0041I), Nethanel (H5417H), Raddai (H7288), Ozem (H0684), Abigail (H0026H)(?) and Elihu (H0453J), Shimeah (H8093) § Zeruiah = "balsam" sister of David and mother of the 3 leading heroes of David's army-Abishai, Joab, and Asahel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.