zereda Summary and Overview

the fortress, a city on the north of Mount Ephraim; the birthplace of Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:26). It is probably the same as Zaretan (Josh. 3:16), Zererath (Judg. 7:22), Zartanah (1 Kings 4:12), or the following.

(the fortress) the native place of Jeroboam. #1Ki 11:26| Zereda or Zeredah has been supposed to be identical with Zeredathah and Zarthan or Zartanah; but the last two were in the valley of the Jordan, while Zeredah was, according to the repeated statement of the LXX., on Mount Ephraim.

ZER'EDA (cooling?), a place in Ephraim, in the plain of Jordan. 1 Kgs 11:26. Possibly it is the same as Zaretan. Josh 3:16; Zererath, Jud 7:22; Zartanah, 1 Kgs 4:12; Zeredathah, 2 Chr 4:17; and Zarthan. 1 Kgs 7:46. There seems to be much confusion about these names, but the Pal. Memoirs suggest as the site of Zereda, Siirdah, 2 1/2 miles north-west of Beitin (Bethel).

Hebrew the Zeredah. Jeroboam's native place (1 Kings 11:26). The Septuagint has: Sareira, and the Alexandrinus manuscript has: Sarida, and make it a strong town in Mount Ephraim which Jeroboam fortified for Solomon, and where on his return from Egypt he assembled the tribe of Ephraim. If this Septuagint view be rejected, and if it be identified with ZARTHAN, then it lay in that part of Ephraim which was in the Jordan valley.