Zedekiah
/ˌzɛdɪˈkaɪə/noun
A biblical Hebrew personal name borne by the last king of Judah and several other figures in the Hebrew Bible.
Did you know?According to 2 Kings, King Zedekiah was forced to watch his sons’ execution before being blinded and carried to Babylon, making the name’s history strikingly tragic.
Etymological Timeline
Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew
צִדְקִיָּהוּ (Ṣidqiyyāhū)
“Yahweh is righteousness; formed from ṣedeq, “righteousness,” and -yāhū, a form of the divine name Yahweh.”
6th–5th Century BCE
Greek
Σεδεκίας (Sedekías)
“The Greek form used in the Septuagint for the Hebrew name.”
Late Antiquity
Latin
Sedecias
“The Latin biblical form of the name.”
Middle English
English
Sedechias / Zedekiah
“Forms transmitted through biblical Latin, French, and English scriptural tradition.”
Modern English
English
Zedekiah
“The established English form of the biblical personal name.”
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