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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 - Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, an E'phraimite of Zer'edah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeru'ah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - The man Jerobo'am was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:29 - And at that time, when Jerobo'am went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite found him on the road. Now Ahi'jah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the open country.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - And he said to Jerobo'am, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:40 - Solomon sought therefore to kill Jerobo'am; but Jerobo'am arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:2 - And when Jerobo'am the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, whither he had fled from King Solomon), then Jerobo'am returned from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:3 - And they sent and called him; and Jerobo'am and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehobo'am,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:12 - So Jerobo'am and all the people came to Rehobo'am the third day, as the king said, "Come to me again the third day."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:15 - So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD that he might fulfil his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite to Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:20 - And when all Israel heard that Jerobo'am had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that 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 Jerobo'am built Shechem in the hill country of E'phraim, and dwelt there; and he went out from there and built Penu'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:26 - And Jerobo'am said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jerobo'am appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices upon the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 - And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel. Jerobo'am was standing by the altar to burn incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jerobo'am stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Lay hold of him." And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - After this thing Jerobo'am did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who would, he consecrated to be priests of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - And this thing became sin to the house of Jerobo'am, so as to cut it off and to 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 Abi'jah the son of Jerobo'am fell sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2 - And Jerobo'am said to his wife, "Arise, and disguise yourself, that it be not known that you are the wife of Jerobo'am, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahi'jah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:4 - Jerobo'am's wife did so; she arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahi'jah. Now Ahi'jah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5 - And the LORD said to Ahi'jah, "Behold, the wife of Jerobo'am is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her." When she came, she pretended to be another woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:6 - But when Ahi'jah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jerobo'am; why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with heavy tidings for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:7 - Go, tell Jerobo'am, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you leader over my people Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10 - therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jerobo'am, and will cut off from Jerobo'am every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will utterly consume the house of Jerobo'am, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11 - Any one belonging to Jerobo'am who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat; for the LORD has spoken it."'

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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 only of Jerobo'am shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jerobo'am.

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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 Jerobo'am today. And henceforth

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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 Jerobo'am, which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17 - Then Jerobo'am's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. And as 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 Jerobo'am, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, 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 - And the time that Jerobo'am reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:30 - And there was war between Rehobo'am and Jerobo'am continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:1 - Now in the eighteenth year of King Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, Abi'jam began to reign over Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:6 - Now there was war between Rehobo'am and Jerobo'am all the days of his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:7 - The rest of the acts of Abi'jam, 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 Abi'jam and Jerobo'am.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:9 - In the twentieth year of Jerobo'am king of Israel Asa began to reign over Judah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:25 - Nadab the son of Jerobo'am began to reign 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 as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jerobo'am; he left to the house of Jerobo'am not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by his servant Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - it was for the sins of Jerobo'am which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:34 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jerobo'am and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - "Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jerobo'am, and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - behold, I will utterly sweep away Ba'asha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - Moreover the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hana'ni against Ba'asha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jerobo'am, and also because he destroyed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of his sins which he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jerobo'am, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:26 - For he walked in all the way of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and in the sins which he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, he took for wife Jez'ebel the daughter of Ethba'al king of the Sido'nians, and went and served Ba'al, and worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 - and I will make your house like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did what was 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 Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:3 - Nevertheless he clung to the sin of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:9 - And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah.

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