Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H348
אִיזֶבֶל
izebelee-zeh'-bel
Jezebel
22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÎyzebel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H348is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H348
Izebel, the wife of king Ahab
The King James renders it: Jezebel.
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
izebel is rendered "Jezebel". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 16:31And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
1 Kings 16:31אִיזֶ֗בֶל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Jezebel19
- and Jezebel1
- of Jezebel1
- to Jezebel1
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.
All 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- אִיזֶ֔בֶל3
- אִיזֶ֣בֶל3
- אִיזָֽבֶל׃3
- אִיזֶ֗בֶל2
- אִיזֶ֜בֶל2
- לְאִיזֶ֔בֶל2
- אִיזֶ֙בֶל֙1
- אִיזֶ֖בֶל1
- אִיזֶ֥בֶל1
- אִיזֶ֧בֶל1
- אִיזָ֑בֶל1
- אִיזָֽבֶל׃ פ1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)19HNpf
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npf
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npf
1 Kings
fifteen uses
And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
- אִיזֶ֗בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
- אִיזֶ֔בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
- אִיזֶ֔בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
Now summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
- אִיזָֽבֶל׃ʾizavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
- לְאִיזֶ֔בֶלleizevelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Jezebel
So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the lives of those you killed!”
- אִיזֶ֙בֶל֙ʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
Soon his wife Jezebel came in and asked, “Why are you so sullen that you refuse to eat?”
- אִיזֶ֣בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
- אִיזֶ֣בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
- אִיזָ֑בֶלʾizavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
- אִיזֶ֣בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
When 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, who refused to give it to you for silver. For Naboth is no longer alive, but dead.”
- אִיזֶ֔בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
- אִיזֶ֜בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’
- לְאִיזֶ֔בֶלleizevelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Jezebel
- אִיזֶ֖בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
- אִיזֶ֥בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
2 Kings
seven uses
And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.
- אִיזָֽבֶל׃ʾizavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
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.
- אִיזֶ֜בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
- אִיזֶ֧בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
- וְאִיזֶ֣בֶלveizevelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Jezebel
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.
- אִיזָֽבֶל׃ʾizavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
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.’”
- אִיזֶ֗בֶלʾizevelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
- אִיזָֽבֶל׃ פʾizavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Jezebel
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.