Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6870
צְרוּיָה
Tseruyahtser-oo-yaw'
Zeruiah
26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Tsᵉrûwyâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6870is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6870
Tserujah, an Israelitess
The King James renders it: Zeruiah.
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
Tseruyah is rendered "Zeruiah". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 26:6And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.
1 Samuel 26:6צְרוּיָ֜ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-six uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Zeruiah26
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צְרוֹר | tseror | bundle | Uses10 |
The words it stands beside
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- צְרוּיָ֖ה5
- צְרוּיָ֔ה4
- צְרוּיָ֗ה4
- צְרוּיָ֜ה3
- צְרוּיָה֙3
- צְרֻיָ֑ה2
- צְרוּיָ֣ה1
- צְרוּיָ֑ה1
- צְרוּיָֽה׃ ס1
- צְרוּיָֽה׃ פ1
- צְרֻיָֽה׃ ס1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)26HNpf
1 Samuel
one use
And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.
- צְרוּיָ֜הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
2 Samuel
fourteen uses
So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.
- צְרוּיָ֜הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
- צְרוּיָ֔הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
- צְרוּיָ֖הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
- צְרוּיָ֖הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
- צְרֻיָ֑הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!”
- צְרוּיָה֙tzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
- צְרֻיָ֑הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
- צְרוּיָ֖הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”
- צְרוּיָה֙tzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
- צְרוּיָה֙tzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
- צְרוּיָ֔הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”
- צְרוּיָ֔הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Now Abishai, the brother of Joab and son of Zeruiah, was chief of the Three, and he lifted his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name along with the Three.
- צְרוּיָ֗הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,
- צְרֻיָֽה׃ סtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
1 Kings
three uses
So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.
- צְרוּיָ֔הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
- צְרוּיָ֗הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
- צְרוּיָֽה׃ פtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
1 Chronicles
eight uses
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
- צְרוּיָ֣הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
- צְרוּיָ֗הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.
- צְרוּיָ֖הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,
- צְרוּיָֽה׃ סtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Moreover, Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
- צְרוּיָ֗הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
- צְרוּיָ֖הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Everything that had been dedicated by Samuel the seer, Saul son of Kish, Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah, along with everything else that was dedicated, was under the care of Shelomith and his brothers.
- צְרוּיָ֑הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.
- צְרוּיָ֜הtzeruyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Zeruiah
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.