Strong's #6667: Tsidqiyah (pronounced tsid-kee-yaw')
or Tsidqiyahuw {tsid-kee-yaw'-hoo}; from 6664 and 3050; right of Jah; Tsidkijah, the name of six Israelites:--Zedekiah, Zidkijah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ּּ / ּ
tsidqı̂yâh / tsidqı̂yâhû
Zedekiah = "Jehovah is righteous"
1) 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
2) false prophet at the court of king Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel
3) son of Maaseiah, a false prophet in Babylon
4) son of Hananiah, one of the princes of Judah in the time of Jeremiah
5) a priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
6) son of king Jehoiakim of Judah
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: from H6664 and H3050
Usage:
This word is used 62 times:
Jeremiah 39:4: "And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men"
Jeremiah 39:5: "after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up"
Jeremiah 39:6: "slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon"
Jeremiah 44:30: "as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar"
Jeremiah 49:34: "Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,"
Jeremiah 51:59: "of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth"
Jeremiah 52:1: " Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven"
Jeremiah 52:3: "he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king"
Jeremiah 52:5: "unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah."
Jeremiah 52:8: "the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army"
Jeremiah 52:10: "slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also"
Jeremiah 52:11: "Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried"
