Bible Person

Zebudah

Meaning: endowed; endowing · Female · 1 cross reference

Zebudah is the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoiakim in 2 Kings 23:36. She belongs to the royal house of Judah in its final troubled generation before the exile. First appears in 2 Kgs 23:36.1

AI summary: Zebudah matters because her single cross reference situates Jehoiakim within a named maternal line inside the house of David. The entry adds domestic and dynastic texture to the final era of Judah's monarchy. Taken together, the material presents Zebudah as a royal mother in Judah's last kingdom period.1

Central Figure

Zebudah

Meaning: endowed; endowing

Given, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:36).