2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Zephaniah 
  Jehovah  has  concealed,  or  Jehovah  of  darkness.  (1.)  The  son  of 
  Cushi,  and  great-grandson  of  Hezekiah,  and  the  ninth  in  the 
  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  book  of  his 
  prophecies  consists  of: 
 
  a  An  introduction  (1:1-6),  announcing  the  judgment  of  the 
  world,  and  the  judgment  upon  Israel,  because  of  their 
  transgressions. 
 
  b  The  description  of  the  judgment  (1:7-18). 
 
  c  An  exhortation  to  seek  God  while  there  is  still  time 
  (2:1-3). 
 
  d  The  announcement  of  judgment  on  the  heathen  (2:4-15). 
 
  e  The  hopeless  misery  of  Jerusalem  (3:1-7). 
 
  f  The  promise  of  salvation  (3:8-20). 
 
  (2.)  The  son  of  Maaseiah,  the  "second  priest"  in  the  reign  of 
  Zedekiah,  often  mentioned  in  Jeremiah  as  having  been  sent  from 
  the  king  to  inquire  (Jer.  21:1)  regarding  the  coming  woes  which 
  he  had  denounced,  and  to  entreat  the  prophet's  intercession  that 
  the  judgment  threatened  might  be  averted  (Jer.  29:25,  26,  29; 
  37:3;  52:24).  He  along  with  some  other  captive  Jews,  was  put  to 
  death  by  the  king  of  Babylon  "at  Riblah  in  the  land  of  Hamath" 
  (2  Kings  25:21). 
 
  (3.)  A  Kohathite  ancestor  of  the  prophet  Samuel  (1  Chr.  6:36). 
 
  (4.)  The  father  of  Josiah,  the  priest  who  dwelt  in  Jerusalem 
  when  Darius  issued  the  decree  that  the  temple  should  be  rebuilt 
  (Zech.  6:10). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Zephaniah,  the  Lord  is  my  secret 
 

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