צִדְקִיָּ֫הוּ56 H6667
Tsidqiyyahu -- Zedekiah, 'Yahweh is my righteousness'; name of several persons, chiefly Judah's last king
Tsidqiyyahu (Zedekiah) is a theophoric proper name meaning 'Yahweh is my righteousness,' borne by several figures in the Hebrew Bible. The most prominent is the last king of Judah, originally named Mattaniah, whom Nebuchadnezzar renamed and installed as vassal king (2 Kgs 24:17). His ill-fated eleven-year reign ended with the fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Temple, and his blinding after watching his sons' execution (2 Kgs 25:1-7; Jer 39:1-7). The name also belongs to a false prophet under Ahab (1 Kgs 22:11, 24) and a false prophet in Jeremiah's time (Jer 29:21-22). With 63 occurrences, the name appears most densely in Jeremiah. All languages preserve it phonetically.
Senses
1. Zedekiah — A theophoric name meaning 'Yahweh is my righteousness,' referring primarily to Judah's last king (originally Mattaniah, renamed by Nebuchadnezzar, 2 Kgs 24:17), whose reign ended in the catastrophic fall of Jerusalem (586 BC). The name also designates a false prophet who struck Micaiah (1 Kgs 22:24) and one condemned by Jeremiah (Jer 29:21-22). Spanish Sedecias, French Sedecias, and German Zedekia reflect variant transliteration traditions, but all point to the same proper-noun identity across 63 occurrences with no semantic polysemy. 63×
AR["صِدقِيّاهو", "صِدْقِيَا", "صِدْقِيَّا"]·ben["সিদিকিয়", "সিদিকিয়-এর", "সিদিকিয়কে", "সিদিকিয়র", "সিদিকিয়ের", "সিদ্কিয়", "সিদ্কিয়কে", "সিদ্কিয়াহু", "সিদ্কিয়ের।"]·DE["Zedekia"]·EN["Tsidkiyahu", "Tsidqiyah", "Tsidqiyahu", "Zedekiah"]·FR["Sédécias", "[צדקיהו]"]·heb["צדקיה", "צדקיהו"]·HI["सिदकियाह", "सिदकियाहू", "सिदकिय्याह", "सिदकिय्याहू", "सिदकीया", "सिदकीया-ने", "सिद्किय्याहू"]·ID["Zedekia"]·IT["Sedechia", "Tsidkiyahu"]·jav["Sédèkya", "Zedekia", "Zidkia", "Zidkiya", "Zidékiya"]·KO["시드기야", "시드기야가", "시드기야를", "시드기야에게", "시드기야여", "시드기야요"]·PT["Tsidqiyah", "Tsidqiyahu"]·RU["Седекии", "Седекия", "Цедекии", "Цедекию", "Цедекия", "Цидкии", "Цидкийаху", "Цидкию", "Цидкия", "Цидкияху"]·ES["Sedecías", "Sedequías", "Tsidqiyah", "Tsidqiyahu"]·SW["Sedekia", "Zedekia"]·TR["Sidkiya", "Sidkiya'nın", "Sidkiya'yı", "Sidkiyahu", "Sidkiyahu'ya", "Tsidkiya", "Tsidkiya'ya", "Tsidkiya'yı", "Tsidkiyahu", "Tsidkiyyahu"]·urd["صدقیاہ", "صدقیاہ-نے", "صدقیّاہو", "صدقیّاہو-نے", "صدقیہو"]
1 Kgs 22:24, 2 Kgs 24:17, 2 Kgs 24:18, 2 Kgs 24:20, 1 Chr 3:15, 2 Chr 18:10, 2 Chr 18:23, 2 Chr 36:10, 2 Chr 36:11, Jer 21:1, Jer 21:3, Jer 21:7 (+38 more)
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
צִדְקִיָּ֫הוּ56 -יָּה7 n.pr.m. (י׳ is righteousness; cf. Sab. צדקאל DHMib., on No. 32);—Σεδεκια(ς): 1. last king of Judah, מַתַּנְּיָה, changed to צ׳: -יָּ֫הוּ 2 K 24:17, 18, 20; 25:2, 7(×2) = 2 Ch 36:10, 11, 1 Ch 3:15; Je 1:3; 21:1, 3, 7 + 37 times Je; -יָּה †Je 27:12; 28:1; 29:3; 49:34. †2. false prophets: a. under Ahab, -יָּ֫הוּ 1 K 22:24 = 2 Ch 18:10, 23; -יָּה 1 K 22:11. b. -יָּ֫הוּ Jerem.’s…