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Definition of Jeroboam
1. Noun. (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC).
Category relationships: Old Testament
Generic synonyms: King, Male Monarch, Rex
2. Noun. A large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon).
Definition of Jeroboam
1. Proper noun. first king of the Kingdom of Israel ¹
2. Noun. A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 3 liters of fluid, four times the volume of a standard bottle. ¹
3. Noun. A bottle of Bordeaux wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle. ¹
4. Noun. A wine bottle having a capacity of 3 litres. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jeroboam
1. a wine bottle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeroboam
Literary usage of Jeroboam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Solomon heard of the incident and Jeroboam was forced to flee to Egypt, ...
3 (probably a later report) Jeroboam appears as spokesman for Israel at the ..."
2. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"5 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise. 1 pray thee, arid disguise thyself, that
thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam ; and t thee to Shiloh ..."
3. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"Jeroboam, no doubt, felt patriotic or tribal indignation at Solomon's ...
Jeroboam had not sufficiently matured his plans, however, and he escaped the ..."
4. Old Testament History by Henry Preserved Smith (1903)
"CHAPTER X FROM Jeroboam TO JEHU THE attempt of an ambitious satrap to make himself an
... It was headed by Jeroboam ben Nebat, a man of obscure origin, ..."
5. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1887)
""Then Jeroboam built Shechem in Mount Ephraim ; and dwelt therein; ... The meaning
is that Jeroboam enlarged and fortified the old capital of Ephraim, ..."
6. The Modern Reader's Bible: The Books of the Bible with Three Books of the by Richard Green Moulton (1907)
"And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, ...
Story of Ahijah and the Wife of Jeroboam At that time Abijah the son of ..."
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