zḗ - rōō´a ( צרוּעה , cerū‛āh , 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 1 Kings 12:24 reads ( 1 Kings 12:24 ): "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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