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Lexicon :: Strong's G2403 - iezabel

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Ἰεζάβελ
Transliteration
iezabel (Key)
Pronunciation
ee-ed-zab-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin אִיזֶבֶל (H348)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
22x in 1 unique form(s)
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TDNT Reference: 3:217,348

Strong’s Definitions

†Ἰεζαβήλ Iezabḗl, ee-ed-zab-ale'; of Hebrew origin (H348); Jezabel (i.e. Jezebel), a Tyrian woman (used as a synonym of a termagant or false teacher):—Jezabel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2403 in the following manner: Jezebel (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2403 in the following manner: Jezebel (1x).

  1. Jezebel = "chaste"

    1. wife of Ahab, an impious and cruel queen who protected idolatry and persecuted the prophets

    2. the symbolic name of a woman who pretended to be a prophetess, and who, addicted to antinomianism, claimed Christian liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†Ἰεζαβήλ Iezabḗl, ee-ed-zab-ale'; of Hebrew origin (H348); Jezabel (i.e. Jezebel), a Tyrian woman (used as a synonym of a termagant or false teacher):—Jezabel.
STRONGS G2403:
Ἰεζάβελ ([so G T WH, L Ἱεζ.; Tr -βέλ]; Rec. Ἰεζάβήλ), ἡ, (אִיזֶבֶל ['perhaps intact, chaste; cf. Agnes' (Gesenius)]), Jezebel [modern: Isabel], wife of Ahab ([circa] B. C. 917-897; 1 Kings 16:29), an impious and cruel queen, who protected idolatry and persecuted the prophets (1 Kings 16:31 — 2 Kings 9:30); in Revelation 2:20 equivalent to a second Jezebel, the symbolic name of a woman who pretended to be a prophetess, and who, addicted to antinomianism, claimed for Christians the liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols, Revelation 2:20.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
16:29; 16:31
2 Kings
9:30
Revelation
2:20; 2:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2403 matches the Greek Ἰεζάβελ (iezabel),
which occurs 22 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 - But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11 - And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:14 - Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - And of Jezebel the LORD also said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the territory 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 - and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”
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