Associations to the word «Zephaniah»

Wiktionary

ZEPHANIAH, proper noun. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
ZEPHANIAH, proper noun. A male given name.

Dictionary definition

ZEPHANIAH, noun. A Hebrew minor prophet of the late 7th century BC.
ZEPHANIAH, 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats