Entry № 11965 · Hebrew origin

Zibiah Zibiah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zi-BIE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Gazelle (Joash's mother)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "gazelle (joash's mother)".

Zibiah (צִבְיָה) means "female gazelle" in Hebrew. In 2 Kings 12:1, Zibiah of Beersheba was the mother of King Joash of Judah — who was rescued as an infant by his aunt Jehosheba and crowned king at age seven after Athaliah's tyranny.

Among the named Judahite queen-mothers.

Gazelle (Joash's mother) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

צִבְיָה
Transliteration
Ṣiḇyāh
Pronunciation
/ zɪˈbaɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zibiah stands.

Zibiah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zibiahs before her.

Real people
Zibiah
Mother of King Joash.
In fiction
Zibiah
2 Kings 12:1.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Zibiah.

The number behind Zibiah.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zibiah reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.