King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2216
Transliteration: Zerubbabel
Phonetic Spelling: (zer-oob-baw-bel')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "begotten in Babylon", a leader of returning Israelite exiles
Meaning: Zerubbabel -- "begotten in Babylon", a leader of returning Israelite exiles
Word Summary
Zerubbabel: "begotten in Babylon", a leader of returning Israelite exiles
Original Word: זְרֻבָּבֶלTransliteration: Zerubbabel
Phonetic Spelling: (zer-oob-baw-bel')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "begotten in Babylon", a leader of returning Israelite exiles
Meaning: Zerubbabel -- "begotten in Babylon", a leader of returning Israelite exiles
Strong's Concordance
Zerubbabel From zarab and Babel; descended of (i.e. From) Babylon, i.e. Born there; Zerubbabel, an Israelite -- Zerubbabel.
see HEBREW zarab
see HEBREW Babel
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2216. Zerubbabel
זְרֻבָּבֶ֫ל proper name, masculine (according to MV perhaps = בָּבֶל זְרוּעַ begotten in Babylon, see also Thes) **probably = Babylonian Zêr-Bâbili = off-spring of Babylon, often in Inscriptions (MeyE. Jud. v). — grandson of king Jehoiachin, and son of Pedaiah 1 Chronicles 3:19 (twice in verse) (but son of Shealtiel Ezra 3:2, 8 etc., compare שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל brother (?) of מְּדָיָה 1 Chronicles 3:17); leader of first returning exiles Ezra 2:2 = Nehemiah 7:7; Ezra 3:2, 8; 4:2-3, Nehemiah 12:1, 47; Haggai 1:12; 2:4; Zechariah 4:6-7, 9, 10; called יְהוּדָה מַּחַת Haggai 1:1, 14; 2:2, 21, called עַבְדִּי (by ׳י) 2:23. — ᵐ5 Ζοροβαβελ.
זְרֻבָּבֶ֫ל noun [masculine] (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Ezra 5:2.