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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)
Dictionary Aids

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), , (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 16:312 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.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 -

And as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - for when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - “Has it not been reported to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred [fn]prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - “Now then, send orders and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and four hundred prophets of [fn]the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 -

Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done, and [fn]how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more so, if by about this time tomorrow I do not make your [fn]life like the [fn]life of one of them.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 -

But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating [fn]food?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now [fn]reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11 -

So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did just as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:14 - Then they sent word to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 -

And when 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.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “The LORD has also spoken of Jezebel, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the [fn]territory of Jezreel.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 -

There certainly was no one like Ahab who gave himself over to do evil in the sight of the LORD, [fn]because Jezebel his wife incited him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did 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 misled Israel into sin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - ‘And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When [fn]Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is your intention peace, Jehu?” And he [fn]answered, “What ‘peace,’ so long as your mother Jezebel’s acts of prostitution and witchcraft are so many?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 -

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard about it, and she put makeup on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked down through the window.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - Therefore they returned and informed him. And he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘On the [fn]property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - and the corpse of Jezebel will be like dung on the face of the field in the [fn]property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.”’”
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