יִזְרְעֵאל
Yizrᵉʻêʼl · yiz-reh-ale'
Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2232 (זָרַע) and H410 (אֵל); God will sow;
Jizreel, the name of two places in Palestine and of two Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Jezreel.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest › to see and know › strength, the leader › authority, the one who leads
The hand that works that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest that works to see and know of strength, the leader of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יִזְרְעֵאל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 22 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of jezreel12 · 33%
- in jezreel6 · 17%
- to jezreel4 · 11%
- jezreel3 · 8%
- and jezreel1 · 3%
- was toward jezreel1 · 3%
- which is in jezreel1 · 3%
- and over jezreel1 · 3%
- out of jezreel1 · 3%
- beneath jezreel1 · 3%
- which was in jezreel1 · 3%
- it in jezreel1 · 3%
- to me to jezreel1 · 3%
- him them to jezreel1 · 3%
- at jezreel1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.