Zeruah

ZERUAH ze-roo'-a (tseru`ah, perhaps "leprous"):

Mother of King Jeroboam I (1 Kings 11:26), the Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus and Lucian omit the name in 1 Kings 11:26, but the long the Septuagint after Massoretic Text of 12:24 reads (12:24b): "And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, a servant of Solomon, and his name was Jeroboam, and the name of his mother was Sareisa (Septuagint has Sareisa), a harlot."

See ZARETHAN.

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ZERUAH'".  "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".  1915.