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Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H3157

יִזְרְעֵאל

Yizreelyiz-reh-ale'

Jezreel

36 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Yizrᵉʻêʼl

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3157is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 22
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3157

Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites

The King James renders it: Jezreel.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Yizreel is rendered "Jezreel". It stands 36 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 15:56Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.

The first use

Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

Joshua 15:56וְיִזְרְעֶ֥אל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Fourteen of the word's thirty-six uses are in 2 Kings.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Jezreel15
  • in Jezreel10
  • Jezreel towards7
  • from Jezreel2
  • and Jezreel1
  • to Jezreel1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

יִזְרְעֵאלִיYizreeliJezreelUses13
יִזְרָחYizrachIzrahiteUses1

All 36, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

22 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃6
  • יִזְרְעֶ֑אל3
  • יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה׃3
  • בְיִזְרְעֶ֗אל2
  • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֖אל2
  • בְּיִזְרְעֶֽאל׃2
  • יִזְרְעֶאל֙2
  • יִזְרְעֶ֑אלָה2
  • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֑אל1
  • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֗אל1
  • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֔אל1
  • בִיְזְרְעֶ֗אל1

and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)13HNpl
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)13HR/Npl
  • proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)7HNpl/Sd
  • proper noun (a name)2HNpm
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl

Joshua

three uses
  • Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

    Joshua 15:56

    • וְיִזְרְעֶ֥אלveyizreelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Jezreel
  • “The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”

    Joshua 17:16

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

    Joshua 19:18

    • יִזְרְעֶ֥אלָהyizreelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jezreel towards

Judges

one use
  • Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

    Judges 6:33

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel

1 Samuel

three uses
  • David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.

    1 Samuel 25:43

    • מִֽיִּזְרְעֶ֑אלmiyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Jezreel
  • Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

    1 Samuel 29:1

    • בְּיִזְרְעֶֽאל׃beyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
  • So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

    1 Samuel 29:11

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃ סyizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel

2 Samuel

two uses
  • and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.

    2 Samuel 2:9

    • יִזְרְעֶ֑אלyizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

    2 Samuel 4:4

    • מִֽיִּזְרְעֶ֗אלmiyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Jezreel

1 Kings

five uses
  • Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;

    1 Kings 4:12

    • לְיִזְרְעֶ֗אלleyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Jezreel
  • Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

    1 Kings 18:45

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה׃yizreelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jezreel towards
  • And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

    1 Kings 18:46

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה׃yizreelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jezreel towards
  • Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

    1 Kings 21:1

    • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֑אלbeyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
  • And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’

    1 Kings 21:23

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel

2 Kings

fourteen uses
  • So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.

    2 Kings 8:29

    • בְיִזְרְעֶ֗אלveyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
    • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֖אלbeyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
  • And on the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour Jezebel, and there will be no one to bury her.’” Then the young prophet opened the door and ran.

    2 Kings 9:10

    • יִזְרְעֶ֖אלyizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

    2 Kings 9:15

    • בִיְזְרְעֶ֗אלviyzereelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
    • בְּיִזְרְעֶֽאל׃beyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
  • Then Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel, because Joram was laid up there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.

    2 Kings 9:16

    • יִזְרְעֶ֔אלָהyizreelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jezreel towards
  • Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”

    2 Kings 9:17

    • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֗אלbeyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
  • Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.

    2 Kings 9:30

    • יִזְרְעֶ֑אלָהyizreelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jezreel towards
  • So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.

    2 Kings 9:36

    • יִזְרְעֶ֔אלyizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”

    2 Kings 9:37

    • יִזְרְעֶ֑אלyizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:

    2 Kings 10:1

    • יִזְרְעֶאל֙yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.

    2 Kings 10:6

    • יִזְרְעֶ֑אלָהyizreelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jezreel towards
  • And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

    2 Kings 10:7

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאלָה׃yizreelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Jezreel towards
  • So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.

    2 Kings 10:11

    • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֔אלbeyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel

1 Chronicles

one use
  • These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi.

    1 Chronicles 4:3

    • יִזְרְעֶ֥אלyizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.

    2 Chronicles 22:6

    • בְיִזְרְעֶ֗אלveyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel
    • בְּיִזְרְעֶ֖אלbeyizreelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Jezreel

Hosea

five uses
  • Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

    Hosea 1:4

    • יִזְרְעֶ֑אלyizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
    • יִזְרְעֶאל֙yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

    Hosea 1:5

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.

    Hosea 1:11

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel
  • And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.

    Hosea 2:22

    • יִזְרְעֶֽאל׃yizreelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezreel

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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