H2080 H2080
personal name meaning 'endowed' or 'given'; mother of King Jehoiakim
Zebudah (also spelled Zebidah) was the mother of Jehoiakim, one of Judah's last kings before the Babylonian exile. She is identified in 2 Kings 23:36 as the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah. The name likely derives from the root meaning 'to give' or 'endow,' making it semantically close to Zabdiel. Textual witnesses show significant variation—the Septuagint offers widely divergent names across manuscripts, including confusion with Zedekiah's mother. This reflects the chaotic state of transmission for genealogical details in the tumultuous final decades of Judah's monarchy.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A woman's name preserved in the royal genealogy of Judah's final generation. The Hebrew form combines a verbal root for 'gift' or 'endowment' with a feminine suffix. She is remembered solely as the mother of Jehoiakim, the king installed by Pharaoh Neco who later became Babylon's vassal. The confused manuscript tradition—especially in Chronicles and the Greek versions—hints at the disruption of memory caused by exile, yet her Judahite origin (Rumah) is preserved, anchoring her in the pre-exilic community. 2×
AR["(زَبُودَّةُ)", "[زَبِيدَةُ]"]·ben["(সবুদ্দা)", "[সবীদা]"]·DE["[Zevidah]"]·EN["Zevuddah", "[Zevidah]"]·FR["Zevuddah", "[Zevidah]"]·heb["זבודה", "זבידה"]·HI["(ज़वूद्दाह)", "[ज़वीदाह]"]·ID["(Zebuda)", "[Zebida]"]·IT["Zevuddah", "[Zevidah]"]·jav["Zébuda"]·KO["즐부다", "즐부다-"]·PT["(Zevudah)", "[Zevidah]"]·RU["(Зевудда)", "[Зевида]"]·ES["Zebuda", "[Zebida]"]·SW["(Zebuda)", "[k]"]·TR["(Zevuda)", "[Zevida]"]·urd["[زبیدہ]", "زبودّہ"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† זבידה Kt, זְבוּדָּה Qr, n.pr.f. mother of Jehoiakim 2 K 23:36 זְביּדָּ֯ה בַת־פְּדָיָה מִן־רוּמָה; (‖ 2 Ch 36:5 om. MT); quite otherwise 𝔊B Ἰελλα, daughter of Ἐδειλ; in A the names are Εἰελδαφ & Εἰεδδιλα; 𝔊 2 Ch 36:5 Ζε(κ)χωρα & Νηρειου; 𝔊L (K & Ch) Ἀμιταλ & Ἰερεμιου (confusion with Zedekiah’s mother 24:18).