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Lexicon :: Strong's H3379 - yārāḇʿām

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יָרָבְעָם
Transliteration
yārāḇʿām
Pronunciation
yaw-rob-awm'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יָרׇבְעָם Yârobʻâm, yaw-rob-awm'; from H7378 and H5971; (the) people will contend; Jarobam, the name of two Israelite kings:—Jeroboam.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 104x

The KJV translates Strong's H3379 in the following manner: Jeroboam (104x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 104x
The KJV translates Strong's H3379 in the following manner: Jeroboam (104x).

  1. Jeroboam = "the people will contend"

    1. the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel when the kingdom split at the death of Solomon and the 10 tribes split off from Judah and Benjamin and the kingdom under Solomon's son Rehoboam; idolatry was introduced at the beginning of his reign

    2. the 8th king of the northern kingdom of Israel, son of Joash, and 4th in the dynasty of Jehu; during his reign the Syrian invaders were repelled and the kingdom restored to its former borders but the idolatry of the kingdom was maintained

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָרׇבְעָם Yârobʻâm, yaw-rob-awm'; from H7378 and H5971; (the) people will contend; Jarobam, the name of two Israelite kings:—Jeroboam.
STRONGS H3379: Abbreviations
יָֽרָבָבְעָם 104 proper name, masculine Jeroboam, Ιεροβοαμ (probably = יָרֹב + עַם the people increaseth Thes Kit 1 Kings 11:26 and others; compare also GrayProp.N. 59; Ency. Bib. i. 139 f.; > √ ריב the people contendeth or (the god) 'Amm contendeth NbrStud. Bib. i. 225, compare CheJQ July, 1899, 559; Ency. Bib.); —
1.90 (Kings Chronicles), leader of revolt of Northern Israel (10th century), and first king 1 Kings 11:26; 1 Kings 12:2 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 12:20, etc., || 2 Chronicles 10:2 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 10:3, 12 etc., 1 Kings 13:1; 1 Kings 13:4; 1 Kings 13:83 +; (specifically בֶּןנְֿבָט יר׳ 1 Kings 11:26 + 23 times); in later times (under Deuteronomic influence) as sinful and author of Israel's sin 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kings 16:2, 7, 19, 26, 31 + 15 times
†2. son of Jehoash of Northern Israel (8th cent.) and 13th king 2 Kings 13:13; 2 Kings 14:16, 23, 27, 28, 29; 2 Kings 15:1, 8; Hosea 1:1; Amos 1:1; Amos 7:9, 10, 11; probably also 1 Chronicles 5:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

1; 11:26; 11:26; 12:2; 12:20; 13:1; 13:4; 15:30; 16:2; 16:7; 16:19; 16:26; 16:31

2 Kings

13:13; 14:16; 14:23; 14:27; 14:28; 14:29; 15:1; 15:8

1 Chronicles

5:17

2 Chronicles

10:2; 10:3; 10:12

Hosea

1:1

Amos

1:1; 7:9; 7:10; 7:11

H3379

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3379 matches the Hebrew יָרָבְעָם (yārāḇʿām),
which occurs 104 times in 95 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 11:26–2Ki 9:9)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 - Then Solomon’s servant, Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zereda, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, made him the officer over all the labor force of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:29 - Now it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the way; and he had clothed himself with a new garment, and the two were alone in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:40 - Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:2 - So it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it (he was still in Egypt, for he had fled from the presence of King Solomon and had been dwelling in Egypt ),

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:3 - that they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:12 - So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had directed, saying, “Come back to me the third day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:15 - So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from the LORD, that He might fulfill His word, which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:20 - Now it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:25 - Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and dwelt there. Also he went out from there and built Penuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:26 - And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom may return to the house of David:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 - And behold, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - So it came to pass when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who cried out against the altar in Bethel, that he stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Arrest him!” Then his hand, which he stretched out toward him, withered, so that he could not pull it back to himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:1 - At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2 - And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophet is there, who told me that I would be king over this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:4 - And Jeroboam’s wife did so; she arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were glazed by reason of his age.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5 - Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:6 - And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another person? For I have been sent to you with bad news.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:7 - “Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10 - “therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11 - “The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the LORD has spoken!” ’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:13 - “And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:14 - “Moreover the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What? Even now!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:16 - “And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17 - Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:19 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:20 - The period that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested with his fathers. Then Nadab his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:30 - And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:1 - In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:6 - And there was war between Rehoboam[fn] and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:7 - Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:9 - In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:25 - Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:34 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - “surely I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - And also the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he killed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of the sins which he had committed in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he had committed to make Israel sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 - ‘I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and made Israel sin.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:3 - Nevertheless he persisted in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:9 - ‘So I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

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