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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2216

זְרֻבָּבֶל

Zerubbabelzer-oob-baw-bel'

Zerubbabel

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Zᵉrubbâbel

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2216is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 10
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2216

Zerubbabel, an Israelite

The King James renders it: Zerubbabel.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Zerubbabel is rendered "Zerubbabel". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Haggai, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Chronicles 3:19The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The children of Zerubbabel:
  • The Greek text spells it ten different ways.

The first use

The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The children of Zerubbabel:

1 Chronicles 3:19זְרֻבָּבֶ֖ל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-one uses are in Haggai.

The other 34 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Zerubbabel18
  • O Zerubbabel2
  • and Zerubbabel1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

10 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֖ל4
  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֗ל3
  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֜ל3
  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֥ל2
  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֤ל2
  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֨ל2
  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֣ל׀2
  • וּזְרֻבָּבֶ֤ל1
  • זְרֻבָּבֶל֙1
  • זְרֻבָּבֶ֣ל1

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)20HNpm
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The children of Zerubbabel:

    1 Chronicles 3:19

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֖לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
    • זְרֻבָּבֶל֙zerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel

Ezra

five uses
  • accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:

    Ezra 2:2

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֗לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

    Ezra 3:2

    • וּזְרֻבָּבֶ֤לuzerubavelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Zerubbabel
  • In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.

    Ezra 3:8

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֣לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”

    Ezra 4:2

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֜לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”

    Ezra 4:3

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֜לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel

Nehemiah

three uses
  • accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:

    Nehemiah 7:7

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֗לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

    Nehemiah 12:1

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֥לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.

    Nehemiah 12:47

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֜לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel

Haggai

seven uses
  • In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating

    Haggai 1:1

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֤לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.

    Haggai 1:12

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֣ל׀zerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,

    Haggai 1:14

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֨לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,

    Haggai 2:2

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֤לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work! For I am with you, declares the LORD of Hosts.

    Haggai 2:4

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֣ל׀zerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: O Zerubbabel
  • “Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:

    Haggai 2:21

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֥לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”

    Haggai 2:23

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֨לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: O Zerubbabel

Zechariah

four uses
  • So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.

    Zechariah 4:6

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֖לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

    Zechariah 4:7

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֖לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.

    Zechariah 4:9

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֗לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel
  • For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

    Zechariah 4:10

    • זְרֻבָּבֶ֖לzerubavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Zerubbabel

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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