Zephaniah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible; the most prominent being the prophet who prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of Judah and is attributed a book bearing his name among th
A 17th century icon of Zephaniah
An 18th-century Russian icon of the prophet Zephaniah in Kizhi, Karelia
Zephaniah addressing people (France, 16th century).
The Book of Zephaniah is the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament and Tanakh, preceded in all traditions by the Book of Habakkuk and followed by the Book of Haggai. The book has thr
Zephaniah
…people in the Hebrew Bible; the most prominent being the prophet who prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of Judah (640–609 BCE) and is attributed a book bearing his name among the Twelve Minor Prophets. His name is commonly transliterated Sophonias in Bibles translated from the Vulgate or Septuagint. The name might mean…
The Leningrad Codex (AD. 1008) contains the complete text of the Book of Zephaniah in Hebrew.
A 13th-century Latin Bible, possibly from Toulouse, with part of the Book of Zephaniah (Latin Sophonias)