יִזְרְעֵאלִיYizrᵉʻêʼlîy
a Jizreelite or native of Jizreel
Pronunciation: yiz-reh-ay-lee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3158
Meanings
1. from יִזְרְעֶאל 1.b. (1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 21:4; 1 Kings 21:6)
2. from יִזְרְעֶאל 1.a. (1 Samuel 30:5; 2 Samuel 2:2; 1 Chronicles 3:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 13 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 27:3 David and his men and their families settled there with Achish at Gath. David brought his two wives along with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal’s widow from Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 30:5 David’s two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel, were among those captured.
- 2 Samuel 2:2 David’s two wives were Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel. So David and his wives
- 2 Samuel 3:2 These are the sons who were born to David in Hebron: The oldest was Amnon, whose mother was Ahinoam from Jezreel.
- 1 Kings 21:1 Now there was a man named Naboth, from Jezreel, who owned a vineyard in Jezreel beside the palace of King Ahab of Samaria.
- 1 Kings 21:4 So Ahab went home angry and sullen because of Naboth’s answer. The king went to bed with his face to the wall and refused to eat!
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).