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Strong's #6667 - צִדְקִיָּהוּ
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- Zedekiah = "Jehovah is righteous"
- the last king of Judah renamed from ´Mattaniah´ by Nebuchadnezzar; son of Josiah by wife Hamutal; placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar when he carried his nephew Jehoiakim in captivity
- false prophet at the court of king Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel
- son of Maaseiah, a false prophet in Babylon
- son of Hananiah, one of the princes of Judah in the time of Jeremiah
- a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- son of king Jehoiakim of Judah
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proper name, masculine (׳י is righteousness; compare Sabean צדקאל DHM ib., on No. 32); — σεδεκια(ς):
1 last king of Judah, מַתַּנְּיָה, changed to ׳׃ציָּ֑֫הוּ 2 Kings 24:17,18,20; 2 Kings 25:2,7 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 36:10,11; 1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 1:3; Jeremiah 21:1,3,7 37t. Jeremiah; יָּ֑ה Psalm; Jeremiah 27:12; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 29:3; Jeremiah 49:34.
2 false prophets:
a. under Ahab, יָּ֑֫הוּ 1 Kings 22:24 2 Chronicles 18:10,23; יָּ֑ה 1 Kings 22:11.
b.יָּ֑֫הוּ Jeremiah's time, Jeremiah 29:21,22.
3 יָּ֑֫הוּ prince, Jeremiah's time, Jeremiah 36:12.
4יָּ֑ה, priest, Nehemiah's time, Nehemiah 10:2 (ᵐ5 L Σεχενιας).
5יָּ֑ה, son of Jehoiachin, according to 1 Chronicles 3:16, but probably gloss, Be Song of Solomon , compare Kit.
צִדְקִיָּהוּ (“justice of Jehovah”), [Zedekiah, Zidkijah], pr.n.
(1) of a king of Judah, 600-588, b. c., to whom this name was given by Nebuchadnezzar, instead of his former name מַתַּנְיָה, 2 Kings 24:17; 1 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 1:3.
(2) of a false prophet under Ahab, 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Chronicles 18:10, 23 2 Chronicles 18:23 also צִדְקִיָּה 1 Kings 22:11.
(3) Jeremiah 29:21, 22 Jeremiah 29:22.
(4) 1 Chronicles 3:16.
(5) Jeremiah 36:12.