Zephaniah or Tzfanya 's the name of several people in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. He's also called Sophonias as in the New Catholic Encyclopaedia and in Easton's [Bible] Dictionary. The name means "God has concealed", or "he whom the Lord has hidden". The prophet Zephaniah The most well-known Biblical figure bearing the name Zephaniah's the son of Cushi, and great-grandson of Hezekiah, ninth in the literary order of the minor prophets. He prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of… (More on Zephaniah)