H2216

זְרֻבָּבֶ֫ל

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Zerubbabel

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at 1Ch.3.19; son of: Pedaiah (H6305H); brother of: Shimei (H8096J); father of: Meshullam (H4918H), Hananiah (H2608L), Shelomith (H8019I), Hashubah (H2807), Ohel (H0169), Berechiah (H1296), Hasadiah (H2619), Jushab-hesed (H3142) and Abiud (G0010); also called Sheshbazzar at Ezr.1.8,11; 5.14,16; KJV: Zorobabel at Mat.1.12,13; § Zerubbabel = "sown in Babylon" the grandson of king Jehoiachin and leader of the first group of returning exiles from Babylon

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

זְרֻבָּבֶ֫ל proper name, masculine (according to MV perhaps = זְרוּעַ בָּבֶל begotten in Babylon, see also Thes)

**probably = Babylonian Zêr-Bâbili = off-spring of Babylon, often in Inscriptions (Mey^{E. Jud. v}). — grandson of king Jehoiachin, and son of Pedaiah 1Chr 3:19 (twice in verse) (but son of Shealtiel Ezra 3:2; Ezra 3:8 etc., compare שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל brother (?) of פְּדָיָה 1Chr 3:17); leader of first returning exiles Ezra 2:2 = Neh 7:7; Ezra 3:2; Ezra 3:8; Ezra 4:2; Ezra 4:3; Neh 12:1; Neh 12:47; Hag 1:12; Hag 2:4; Zech 4:6; Zech 4:7; Zech 4:9; Zech 4:10 called פַּחַת יְהוּדָה Hag 1:1; Hag 1:14; Hag 2:2; Hag 2:21, called עַבְדִּי (by ׳י) Hag 2:23. — ᵐ5 Ζοροβαβελ.

זְרֻבָּבֶ֫ל noun [masculine] (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Ezra 5:2.

18 occurrences

I Chronicles (1), Ezra (5), Nehemiah (3), Haggai (5), Zechariah (4)