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# אִיזֶבֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H348

**Jezebel** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jezebel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/348/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִיזֶבֶל: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/348/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (sense uncertain, CIS i. 158 there occurs the n.pr.f. בעלאזבל Baal exalts? or is husband to? \[v. זָבַל\], 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 K 16:31; 18:4, 13, 19; 19:1, 2; 21:5 +; 2 K 9:7 +.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jezebel (16); of Jezebel (5); \[is\] Jezebel (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.14/#tree)

וַֽיִּשְׁלְח֖וּ אֶל־אִיזֶ֣בֶל לֵאמֹ֑ר סֻקַּ֥ל נָב֖וֹת וַיָּמֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.sent to Jezebel (cmp) he.has.been.stoned Naboth and he.has.died

*JPS 1917:* Then they sent to Jezebel, saying: 'Naboth is stoned, and is dead.'

[1 Kings 21:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.23/#tree)

וְגַ֨ם־לְאִיזֶ֔בֶל דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר הַכְּלָבִ֛ים יֹאכְל֥וּ אֶת־אִיזֶ֖בֶל בְּחֵ֥ל יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃

*Word for word:* and also of Jezebel he.has.spoken Yahweh (cmp) the dogs they.will.devour (et) Jezebel in the.rampart of.Jezreel

*JPS 1917:* And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat of Jezreel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/348.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/348/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).