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Lexicon :: Strong's H348 - 'îzeḇel

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אִיזֶבֶל
Transliteration
'îzeḇel
Pronunciation
ee-zeh'-bel
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אִיזֶבֶל ʼÎyzebel, ee-zeh'-bel; from H336 and H2083; Izebel, the wife of king Ahab:—Jezebel.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H348 in the following manner: Jezebel (22x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H348 in the following manner: Jezebel (22x).
  1. Jezebel = "Baal exalts" or "Baal is husband to" or "unchaste"

    1. queen of Israel, wife of Ahab, daughter of Ethbaal

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִיזֶבֶל ʼÎyzebel, ee-zeh'-bel; from H336 and H2083; Izebel, the wife of king Ahab:—Jezebel.
STRONGS H348: Abbreviations
אִיזֶבֶל proper name, feminine (sense uncertain, CISi. 158 there occurs the proper name, feminine בעלאזבל Baal exalts? or is husband to? [see H2082 זָבַל], of which אִיזֶבֶל is conjectured by DHM to be an intentional alteration, made for the purpose of avoiding the name Baal. If so, א׳ perhaps suggested to the Hebrew ear the idea of un-exalted or un-husbanded), queen of Ahab, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 18:4, 13, 19; 1 Kings 19:1, 2; 1 Kings 21:5 +; 2 Kings 9:7 +.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

16:31; 18:4; 18:13; 18:19; 19:1; 19:2; 21:5

2 Kings

9:7

H348

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H348 matches the Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל ('îzeḇel),
which occurs 22 times in 19 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 -

It came about, as if it had been a trivial thing for Ahab to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married [fn]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 destroyed 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 told to my lord [Elijah] what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred of the LORDS prophets by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - “Now then, send word and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of [the goddess] Asherah, who eat at [Queen] Jezebel’s table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 -

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

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

Then Jezebel his wife came to him and asked him, “Why is your spirit so troubled that you have not eaten?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now reign over Israel? Get up, eat food, and let your heart rejoice; 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 there, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

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

When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, she said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he refused to sell you, because Naboth is no longer alive, but dead.”

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.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - ‘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, [who have died] at the hands of Jezebel.
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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace [can exist] as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?”
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.

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.
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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