אִיזֶבֶלʼÎyzebel

proper name, feminine: queen of Ahab, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre (1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 18:13; 1 Kings 18:19; 1 Kings 19:1)

Pronunciation: ee-zeh'-bel · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H348

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Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 16:31 And as though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to bow down in worship of Baal.
  • 1 Kings 18:4 Once when Jezebel had tried to kill all the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had hidden 100 of them in two caves. He put fifty prophets in each cave and supplied them with food and water.)
  • 1 Kings 18:13 Has no one told you, my lord, about the time when Jezebel was trying to kill the Lord’s prophets? I hid 100 of them in two caves and supplied them with food and water.
  • 1 Kings 18:19 Now summon all Israel to join me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who are supported by Jezebel.”
  • 1 Kings 19:1 When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets of Baal.
  • 1 Kings 19:2 So Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.”
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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).