nevat · Nebat

What it means

nevat (נְבָט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nebat”.

Father of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern tribes. He almost always appears in the phrase "Jeroboam son of Nebat."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×9
• 2 Kings×12
• 2 Chronicles×4

• 1 Kings 11:26

  And Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah — and the name of his mother was Zeruah, a widow — a servant of Solomon, lifted up his hand against the king.

• 1 Kings 12:2

  And it happened when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it —and he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt—

• 1 Kings 12:15

  So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from YHWH, so that he might confirm his word that YHWH had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

• 1 Kings 15:1

  In year eighteen of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.

• 1 Kings 16:3

  look, I am sweeping away after Baasha and after his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

• 1 Kings 16:26

  He walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sin, with which he made Israel sin, provoking to anger YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, with their worthless idols.

• 1 Kings 16:31

  And it happened, as if it were a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and bowed down to him.

• 1 Kings 21:22

  and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger and made Israel sin.’

• 1 Kings 22:52

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.

• 2 Kings 3:3

  Only he clung to the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin, he did not turn away from it.

• 2 Kings 9:9

  I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah.

• 2 Kings 10:29

  Only from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin, Jehu did not turn away from following them: the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.

• 2 Kings 13:2

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, and walked after the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin; he did not turn away from it.

• 2 Kings 13:11

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin; in them he walked.

• 2 Kings 14:24

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin.

• 2 Kings 15:9

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, as his fathers had done; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin.

• 2 Kings 15:18

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin, all his days.

• 2 Kings 15:24

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin.

• 2 Kings 15:28

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin.

• 2 Kings 17:21

  For he tore Israel from the house of David, and they made king Jeroboam son of Nebat; and Jeroboam drew Israel away from following YHWH and made them sin a great sin.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who made Israel sin, even that altar and the high place he tore down; and he burned the high place, ground it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

• 2 Chronicles 9:29

  The rest of the deeds of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

• 2 Chronicles 10:2

  And it happened when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it —and he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king— that Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 10:15

  So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from Elohim, so that YHWH might confirm his word that he had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

• 2 Chronicles 13:6

  But Jeroboam son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord.