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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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - While Jezebel was killing off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - Now Ahab told Jezebel everything 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 - So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 - His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, “Why are you so sullen? Why won’t you eat?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I’ll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:11 - So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:14 - Then they 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 - As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “And also concerning Jezebel the LORD says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of[fn] Jezreel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD’s servants shed by Jezebel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and ran.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ”
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