Strong's H3379 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: יָרׇבְעָם (Yârobʻâm)

Pronunciation: yaw-rob-awm'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Jeroboam = "the people will contend"

Derivation: from רִיב (rîyb) [H7378] and עַם (ʻam) [H5971]; (the) people will contend;

Definition: Jarobam, the name of two Israelite kings

KJV Renderings: Jeroboam.

Senses

1. the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel when the kingdom split at the death of Solomon and the 10 tribes split off from Judah and Benjamin and the kingdom under Solomon's son Rehoboam; idolatry was introduced at the beginning of his reign
2. the 8th king of the northern kingdom of Israel, son of Joash, and 4th in the dynasty of Jehu; during his reign the Syrian invaders were repelled and the kingdom restored to its former borders but the idolatry of the kingdom was maintained

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.