Lexicon Iezabel: Jezebel, the symbolic name of a false prophetess Original Word: Ἰεζάβελ, ἡPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Iezabel Phonetic Spelling: (ee-ed-zab-ale') Short Definition: Jezebel Definition: Jezebel, name given to a false prophetess of Thyatira, possibly borrowed from the name of Ahab's wife, queen of Israel. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Hebrew origin IzebelDefinitionJezebel, the symbolic name of a false prophetess NASB TranslationJezebel (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2403: ΙεζαβελΙεζαβελ ((so G T WH, L Ιεζαβελ; Tr Ιεζαβελ; Rec. Ἰεζάβηλ), ἡ ( אִיזֶבֶל (`perhaps intact, chaste; cf. Agnes' (Gesenius))), Jezebel (modern: Isabel), wife of Ahab (circa ; 1 Kings 16:29), an impious and cruel queen, who protected idolatry and persecuted the prophets (1 Kings 16:31 — 2 Kings 9:30); in Revelation 2:20 equivalent to a second Jezebel, the symbolic name of a woman who pretended to be a prophetess, and who, addicted to antinomianism, claimed for Christians the liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols, Revelation 2:20.
Strong's Jezabel. Of Hebrew origin ('Iyzebel); Jezabel (i.e. Jezebel), a Tyrian woman (used as a synonym of a termagant or false teacher) -- Jezabel. see HEBREW 'Iyzebel |
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