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Definition of Sophonias

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

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.

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 (current term) 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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