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 +.
