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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), 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 though it were not enough to follow the example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to bow down in worship of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - Once when Jezebel had tried to kill all the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah had hidden 100 of them in two caves. He put fifty prophets in each cave and supplied them with food and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Has no one told you, my lord, about the time when Jezebel was trying to kill the LORD’s prophets? I hid 100 of them in two caves and supplied them with food and water.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - Now summon all Israel to join me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who are supported by Jezebel.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 - “What’s the matter?” his wife Jezebel asked him. “What’s made you so upset that you’re not eating?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - “Are you the king of Israel or not?” Jezebel demanded. “Get up and eat something, and don’t worry about it. I’ll get you Naboth’s vineyard!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11 - So the elders and other town leaders followed the instructions Jezebel had written in the letters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:14 - The town leaders then sent word to Jezebel, “Naboth has been stoned to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - When Jezebel heard the news, she said to Ahab, “You know the vineyard Naboth wouldn’t sell you? Well, you can have it now! He’s dead!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “And regarding Jezebel, the LORD says, ‘Dogs will eat Jezebel’s body at the plot of land in Jezreel.[fn]’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (No one else so completely sold himself to what was evil in the LORD’s sight as Ahab did under the influence of his wife Jezebel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - But he did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, following the example of his father and mother and the example of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had led Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - You are to destroy the family of Ahab, your master. In this way, I will avenge the murder of my prophets and all the LORD’s servants who were killed by Jezebel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - Dogs will eat Ahab’s wife Jezebel at the plot of land in Jezreel, and no one will bury her.” Then the young prophet opened the door and ran.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - King Joram demanded, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?”
Jehu replied, “How can there be peace as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother, Jezebel, are all around us?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - When Jezebel, the queen mother, heard that Jehu had come to Jezreel, she painted her eyelids and fixed her hair and sat at a window.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - When they returned and told Jehu, he stated, “This fulfills the message from the LORD, which he spoke through his servant Elijah from Tishbe: ‘At the plot of land in Jezreel, dogs will eat Jezebel’s body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - Her remains will be scattered like dung on the plot of land in Jezreel, so that no one will be able to recognize her.’”
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