Easton's Bible Dictionary Stricken, mother of Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes (1 Kings 11:26). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ZERUAH ze-roo'-a (tseru`ah, 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 12:24 reads (12:24b): "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.

Multi-Version Concordance Zeruah (1 Occurrence) 1 Kings 11:26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)