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Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zereda. His mother, [ a] named Zeruah (צרוע "leprous") was a widow. [ 3] He had at least two sons, Abijah [ 4] and Nadab; Nadab succeeded Jeroboam on the throne. King Solomon made the young Jeroboam a superintendent over his tribesmen in the building of the fortress Millo in Jerusalem and of ...
Jehu (prophet) Portrait of the Prophet Jehu by Girolamo Tessari in Padova, Church of St. Francesco. Jehu ( UK: / ˈdʒiːhjuː /, US: / ˈdʒiːhuː /; [ 1] Hebrew: יֵהוּא Yēhūʾ, "Yah is He") [ 2] son of Hanani was a prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, who was active during the 9th century BC.
Abijah of Judah. Abijam ( Hebrew: אֲבִיָּם, Modern: ʼAvīyam, Tiberian: ʼĂḇīyyām, "father of the sea" or "my father is the sea/is Yam "; Biblical Greek: Αβιού, romanized: Aviou; Latin: Abiam) [ 1] was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the fourth king of the House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son ...
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Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element. Line: a unit into which a poem is divided. Line break: the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. Metre (or meter): the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Metres are influenced by syllables and their "weight".
Line (poetry) A line is a unit of writing into which a poem or play is divided: literally, a single row of text. The use of a line operates on principles which are distinct from and not necessarily coincident with grammatical structures, such as the sentence or single clauses in sentences. Although the word for a single poetic line is verse ...
Fewer. According to the First Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible, Jeroboam's Revolt was an armed insurrection against Rehoboam, king of the United Monarchy of Israel, and subsequently the Kingdom of Judah, led by Jeroboam in the late 10th century BCE. The conflict, referring to the independence of the Kingdom of ...
Stichomythia. Stichomythia ( Ancient Greek: στιχομυθία, romanized : stikhomuthía) is a technique in verse drama in which sequences of single alternating lines, or half-lines (hemistichomythia [1]) or two-line speeches (distichomythia [2]) are given to alternating characters. It typically features repetition and antithesis. [3]