(zephaniah /ˌzɛfəˈnaɪ.ə/ or Tzepfanyah (Hebrew: צְפַנְיָה, Modern Tsfanya, Tiberian Ṣəp̄anyā; “concealed of/is Lord”) is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible and jewish “tanakh”)
(his name is commonly transliterated sophonias in bibles translated from the latin vulgate or septuagint)
(the name might mean “yah(weh) has concealed“, “[he whom] yah(weh) has hidden“, or “Yah(weh) lies in wait“)
(the most well-known biblical figure bearing the name “zephaniah” is the son of cushi, and great, great grandson of king hezekiah, ninth in the literary order of the minor prophets)
(he prophesied in the days of josiah, king of judah (B.C. 641-610), and was contemporary with jeremiah, with whom he had much in common)
(the only primary source from which we obtain our scanty knowledge of the personality and the rhetorical and literary qualities of this individual is the short book of the old testament which bears his name)
(the scene of his activity was the city of jerusalem (zeph 1:4-10; 3:1, 14))