Lexicon Izebel: queen of Isr. with King Ahab Original Word: אּיזָ֫בֶלPart of Speech: Proper Name Feminine Transliteration: Izebel Phonetic Spelling: (ee-zeh'-bel) Short Definition: Jezebel NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionqueen of Isr. with King Ahab NASB TranslationJezebel (21), Jezebel's (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אִיזֶבֶל proper name, feminine (sense uncertain, CIS i. 158 there occurs the proper name, feminine בעלאזבל Baal exalts? or is husband to? [see 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 +. Strong's Jezebel From 'iy and Zbul; Izebel, the wife of king Ahab -- Jezebel. see HEBREW 'iy see HEBREW Zbul |
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