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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6667

צִדְקִיָּה

Tsidqiahtsid-kee-yaw'

Zedekiah

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

Concordance spelling: Tsidqîyâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6667is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 26
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6667

Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites

The King James renders it: Zedekiah, Zidkijah.

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

Tsidqiah is rendered "Zedekiah". It stands 63 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Forty-eight of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 22:11Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.

The first use

Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

1 Kings 22:11צִדְקִיָּ֥ה

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

Where the word stands

Forty-eight of the word's sixty-three uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 33 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

  • Zedekiah54
  • of Zedekiah4
  • and Zedekiah3
  • like Zedekiah1
  • O Zedekiah1

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.

צִדְקָהtsidqahrighteousnessUses1

All 63, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

26 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

  • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ12
  • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּ9
  • צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ4
  • צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּ4
  • צִדְקִיָּ֥ה3
  • צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּ3
  • צִדְקִיָּ֨הוּ3
  • צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃3
  • צִדְקִיָּ֣ה2
  • צִדְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙2
  • צִדְקִיָּ֥הוּ2
  • צִדְקִיָּ֛הוּ2

and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)55HNpm
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)5HR/Npm
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm

1 Kings

two uses
  • Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

    1 Kings 22:11

    • צִדְקִיָּ֥הtzidkiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

    1 Kings 22:24

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah

2 Kings

six uses
  • Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

    2 Kings 24:17

    • צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃ פtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

    2 Kings 24:18

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

    2 Kings 24:20

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

    2 Kings 25:2

    • צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃tzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

    2 Kings 25:7

    • צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
    • צִדְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙tzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.

    1 Chronicles 3:15

    • צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • The successors of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, and Zedekiah.

    1 Chronicles 3:16

    • צִדְקִיָּ֥הtzidkiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”

    2 Chronicles 18:10

    • צִדְקִיָּ֥הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

    2 Chronicles 18:23

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 36:10

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.

    2 Chronicles 36:11

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah

Nehemiah

one use
  • Now these were the ones who sealed the document: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah,

    Nehemiah 10:1

    • וְצִדְקִיָּֽה׃vetzidkiyahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Zedekiah

Jeremiah

forty-eight uses
  • and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

    Jeremiah 1:3

    • לְצִדְקִיָּ֥הוּletzidkiyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Zedekiah
  • This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,

    Jeremiah 21:1

    • צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • But Jeremiah answered, “You are to tell Zedekiah that

    Jeremiah 21:3

    • צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃tzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’

    Jeremiah 21:7

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.

    Jeremiah 24:8

    • צִדְקִיָּ֨הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

    Jeremiah 27:3

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!

    Jeremiah 27:12

    • צִדְקִיָּ֤הtzidkiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:

    Jeremiah 28:1

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הtzidkiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:

    Jeremiah 29:3

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הtzidkiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

    Jeremiah 29:21

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’

    Jeremiah 29:22

    • כְּצִדְקִיָּ֣הוּketzidkiyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Zedekiah
  • This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

    Jeremiah 32:1

    • לְצִדְקִיָּ֖הוּletzidkiyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Zedekiah
  • For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

    Jeremiah 32:3

    • צִדְקִיָּ֥הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.

    Jeremiah 32:4

    • וְצִדְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙vetzidkiyahuconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Zedekiah
  • He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”

    Jeremiah 32:5

    • צִדְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙tzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

    Jeremiah 34:2

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;

    Jeremiah 34:4

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: O Zedekiah
  • In Jerusalem, then, Jeremiah the prophet relayed all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah

    Jeremiah 34:6

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD

    Jeremiah 34:8

    • צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.

    Jeremiah 34:21

    • צִדְקִיָּ֨הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

    Jeremiah 36:12

    • וְצִדְקִיָּ֥הוּvetzidkiyahuconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Zedekiah
  • Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.

    Jeremiah 37:1

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”

    Jeremiah 37:3

    • צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

    Jeremiah 37:17

    • צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?

    Jeremiah 37:18

    • צִדְקִיָּ֑הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

    Jeremiah 37:21

    • צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • “Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.”

    Jeremiah 38:5

    • צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

    Jeremiah 38:14

    • צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • “If I tell you,” Jeremiah replied, “you will surely put me to death. And even if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”

    Jeremiah 38:15

    • צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”

    Jeremiah 38:16

    • צִדְקִיָּ֛הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.

    Jeremiah 38:17

    • צִדְקִיָּ֡הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”

    Jeremiah 38:19

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then Zedekiah warned Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you will die.

    Jeremiah 38:24

    • צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.

    Jeremiah 39:1

    • לְצִדְקִיָּ֨הוּletzidkiyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Zedekiah
  • And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

    Jeremiah 39:2

    • לְצִדְקִיָּ֔הוּletzidkiyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Zedekiah
  • When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.

    Jeremiah 39:4

    • צִדְקִיָּ֨הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

    Jeremiah 39:5

    • צִדְקִיָּהוּ֮tzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

    Jeremiah 39:6

    • צִדְקִיָּ֛הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

    Jeremiah 39:7

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”

    Jeremiah 44:30

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.

    Jeremiah 49:34

    • צִדְקִיָּ֥הtzidkiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.

    Jeremiah 51:59

    • צִדְקִיָּ֤הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

    Jeremiah 52:1

    • צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

    Jeremiah 52:3

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

    Jeremiah 52:5

    • צִדְקִיָּֽהוּ׃tzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

    Jeremiah 52:8

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.

    Jeremiah 52:10

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah
  • Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

    Jeremiah 52:11

    • צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּtzidkiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Zedekiah

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