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Zereda
The fortress, a city on the north of Mount Ephraim; the birthplace of Jeroboam (1 Kgs 11:26). It is probably the same as Zaretan (Josh 3:16), Zererath (Judg 7:22), Zartanah (1 Kgs 4:12), or the following.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 1 Kings 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
