Gender Masculine
Scripts צְפַנְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
From the Hebrew name צְפַנְיָה (Tzefanyah) meaning “YAHWEH has hidden”, derived from צָפַן (tzafan) meaning “to hide” and יָה (yah) referring to the Hebrew GOD. This is the name of one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament, the author of the Book of Zephaniah.
Zephaniah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible and the Hebrew Tanakh, but the most important is surely the prophet in the time of Josiah, king of Judah (640-609 B.C.), and he is credited with a book bearing his name among the twelve minor prophets.
There are four men named Zephaniah in the Bible:
A son of Cushi, and author of the Book of Zephaniah (written around 630 BC).
A musician in the days of David (1Chronicles 6, 36).
A priest who was a contemporary of his famous name-sake and an acquaintance of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 21, 1).
A contemporary of Zechariah, who lived in Jerusalem around 500 BC, and who was the father of Josiah and Hen, although these two may have been the same person (Zechariah 6, 10). This Zephaniah was “second priest,” and served with high priest Seraiah. Both men were killed by Nebuchadnezzar in Riblah on the eve of the deportation (2 Kings 25, 18).