Definition of Sophonias

1. Noun. A Hebrew minor prophet of the late 7th century BC.

Exact synonyms: Zephaniah
Generic synonyms: Prophet

2. Noun. An Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zephaniah which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgment by God upon the sinners of Judah.
Exact synonyms: Book Of Zephaniah, Zephaniah
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Nebiim, Prophets

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sophonias

Soonee
Soonees
Sooner
Sooner State
Sooners
Sooretama slaty antshrike
Sophene
Sophia
Sophia Loren
Sophie
Sophie's choice
Sophie's choices
Sophie Tucker
Sophoclean
Sophocles
Sophonias
Sophora japonica
Sophora secundiflora
Sophora sinensis
Sophora tetraptera
Sophrolaeliocattleya
Sophy
Sopron
Sorani
Sorani alphabet
Soraya
Sorb
Sorbian
Sorbonist
Sorbonists

Literary usage of Sophonias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, According to the Vatican Text by Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1844)
"2 Let there be an utter cutting off from the face of the land, says the Lord. 1. THE word of the Lord which came to sophonias the son of ..."

2. Special Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament by Francis Ernest Gigot (1906)
"The Prophet sophonias (ab. 626-621 BC). I. His Name and Royal Descent. ... 3 The fact that there is one generation more between sophonias and Ezechias than ..."

3. A manual of scripture history: an analysis of the historical books of the by Walter John B. Richards (1880)
"The Ezechias, from whom sophonias was the fourth in descent, was not improbably the king of Juda of that name. This book, which contains three chapters, ..."

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