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Lexicon :: Strong's H3157 - yizrᵊʿe'l

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יִזְרְעֶאל
Transliteration
yizrᵊʿe'l
Pronunciation
yiz-reh-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִזְרְעֵאל Yizrᵉʻêʼl, yiz-reh-ale'; from H2232 and H410; God will sow; Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites:—Jezreel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's H3157 in the following manner: Jezreel (36x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's H3157 in the following manner: Jezreel (36x).

  1. Jezreel = "God sows"

    proper masculine noun

    1. a descendant of the father or founder of Etam of Judah

    2. first son of Hosea the prophet

      proper locative noun

    3. a city in the Nekeb of Judah

    4. a city in Issachar on the northwest spur of Mount Gilboa

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִזְרְעֵאל Yizrᵉʻêʼl, yiz-reh-ale'; from H2232 and H410; God will sow; Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites:—Jezreel.
STRONGS H3157: Abbreviations
† יִזְרְעֶאל
1. proper name, of a location (God soweth; Sabean אלדֿרא MordtZMG 1879, 489; see LagBN 131) — י׳ Joshua 15:56; 2 Samuel 2:9 +; יִזְרְעֶ֑אל 1 Samuel 25:43; Joshua 17:16 +; יִזְרְעֶ֫אלָה Joshua 19:18 + 6 times:
a. city in the Negeb of Judah Joshua 15:56; 1 Samuel 25:43 (home of Ahinoam, one of David's wives), site unknown; compare proper name, masculine 1 Chronicles 4:3.
b. city in Issachar Joshua 19:18 on northwest spur of Mt. Gilboa 2 Samuel 4:4 (compare 1 Samuel 31:1, 8) 1 Kings 4:12 (compare 1 Samuel 31:10, 12), modern Zer`în (RobBR ii. 318 ff. BdPal 244), close to scene of great battle with Philistines 1 Samuel 29:1 (בְּעַיִן אשׁר בְיִז׳, compare RobBR ii. 323) 1 Samuel 29:11; subject to Ishbosheth 2 Samuel 2:9 (yet see below), residence of Ahab and Jehoram of Israel 1 Kings 18:45, 46; 1 Kings 21:1 (Naboth) 2 Kings 8:29 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 22:6 (twice in verse), 2 Kings 9:15 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 9:16, 17, 30; 2 Kings 10:11 compare דְּמֵי יִז׳ Hosea 1:4, and symbolical name of Hosea's son Hosea 1:4 (compare Che); — in 2 Kings 10:1 for שָׂרֵי יִז׳ read שָׂרֵי שֹׁמְרוֺן so Greek Version of the LXX. Used by Hosea as representing Israel, with play on etymology, Hosea 2:24 (compare וּזְרַעְתִּיהָ לִּי בָּאָרֶץ Hosea 2:25), compare also גָּדוֺל יוֺם יִז׳ Hosea 1:2. Territory immediately about the city is חֵלֶק יִז׳ 2 Kings 9:10, 36, 37; compare חֵל יִז׳ 1 Kings 21:23 (read probably חלק, see Th Klo after Syriac Version Vulgate; the adjacent plain is עֵמֶק יִז׳ (compare Di Joshua 17:16 BdPal 229) Joshua 17:16; Judges 6:33; Hosea 1:5 (perhaps also = יִז׳ 2 Samuel 2:9 above, || Gilead, Ephraim, Benjamin, etc.)
2. proper name, masculine
a. Hosea's son Hosea 1:4, compare 1b above.
b. Judahite name 1 Chronicles 4:3, compare 1a above.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

15:56; 15:56; 17:16; 17:16; 17:16; 19:18; 19:18

Judges

6:33

1 Samuel

25:43; 25:43; 29:1; 29:11; 31:1; 31:8; 31:10; 31:12

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:9; 4:4

1 Kings

4:12; 18:45; 18:46; 21:1; 21:23

2 Kings

8:29; 9:10; 9:15; 9:16; 9:17; 9:30; 9:36; 9:37; 10:1; 10:11

1 Chronicles

4:3; 4:3

2 Chronicles

22:6

Hosea

1:2; 1:4; 1:4; 1:4; 1:5

H3157

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Strong's Number H3157 matches the Hebrew יִזְרְעֶאל (yizrᵊʿe'l),
which occurs 36 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:56

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:56 - and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - The sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:18 - Their territory included: Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33 -

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east assembled together; and they crossed over [the Jordan] and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:43 -

David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:1 -

Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 29:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:11 - So David and his men got up early to leave in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel [to fight against Israel].

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:9 - He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, even over all Israel [except Judah].

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:4 -

Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son whose feet were crippled. He was five years old when the news [of the deaths] of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. And the boy’s nurse picked him up and fled; but it happened that while she was hurrying to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:12 - Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as beyond Jokmeam;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:45 - In a little while the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and there were heavy showers. And Ahab mounted and rode [his chariot] and went [inland] to [fn]Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:46 - Then the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah [giving him supernatural strength]. He [fn]girded up his loins and outran Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel [nearly twenty miles].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:1 -

Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, close beside the [winter] palace of Ahab king of Samaria;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “The LORD also spoke in regard to Jezebel, saying, ‘The dogs will eat [the body of] Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - King Joram returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - ‘And the dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and there will be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King [fn]Joram had returned to Jezreel to heal from the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, “If this is your intent, let no one survive and leave the city (Ramoth-gilead) to go and tell of the plan in Jezreel [the capital].”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:16 - So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 -

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the crowd with Jehu as he approached, and said, “I see a company.” And [fn]Joram said, “Send a horseman to meet them and have him ask, ‘[fn]Do you come in peace?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 -

So when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked down from the [upper] window.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - So they returned and told Jehu. Then he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - ‘The corpse of Jezebel will be like dung on the surface of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 -

Ahab had seventy sons [and grandsons] in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then Jehu wrote a second letter to them, saying, “If you are with me and will obey me, take the heads of your master’s [fn]sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time.” Now the [dead] king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his familiar friends and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:3 - These were the sons of [fn]Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - Then he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And [fn]Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - And the LORD said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for yet in a little while I will avenge the blood [that was shed in the Valley] of Jezreel and inflict the punishment for it on the house of [fn]Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the [fn]house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:5 - “On that day I will break the bow [of the military power] of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:11 -

Then the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together,

And they will appoint for themselves one leader,

And they will go up from the land,

For great and glorious will be the day of [fn]Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:22 -

And the earth shall respond to the grain and the new wine and the oil [which beg it to bring them forth],

And they will respond to Jezreel [My Israel, who will now be restored].

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