[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

zephaniah
     n 1: a hebrew minor poet of the late 7th century bc syn: sophonias
     2: an old testament book telling the prophecies of zephaniah
        which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgement
        by god upon the sinners of judah syn: sophonias, book
        of zephaniah
see also:
sophonias book of zephaniah 

[2] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

zephaniah
   jehovah has concealed, or jehovah of darkness. 1. the son of
   cushi, and great-grandson of hezekiah, and the ninth in the
   order of the minor prophets. he prophesied in the days of
   josiah, king of judah b.c. 641-610, and was contemporary with
   jeremiah, with whom he had much in common. the book of his
   prophecies consists of:
   
     a an introduction 1:1-6, announcing the judgment of the
   world, and the judgment upon israel, because of their
   transgressions.
   
     b the description of the judgment 1:7-18.
   
     c an exhortation to seek god while there is still time
   2:1-3.
   
     d the announcement of judgment on the heathen 2:4-15.
   
     e the hopeless misery of jerusalem 3:1-7.
   
     f the promise of salvation 3:8-20.
   
     2. the son of maaseiah, the "second priest" in the reign of
   zedekiah, often mentioned in jeremiah as having been sent from
   the king to inquire jer. 21:1 regarding the coming woes which
   he had denounced, and to entreat the prophet's intercession that
   the judgment threatened might be averted jer. 29:25, 26, 29;
   37:3; 52:24. he, along with some other captive jews, was put to
   death by the king of babylon "at riblah in the land of hamath"
   2 kings 25:21.
   
     3. a kohathite ancestor of the prophet samuel 1 chr. 6:36.
   
     4. the father of josiah, the priest who dwelt in jerusalem
   when darius issued the decree that the temple should be rebuilt
   zech. 6:10.
   

[3] : Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

zephaniah, the lord is my secret

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