אִיזֶבֶל
ʼÎyzebel · ee-zeh'-bel
Izebel, the wife of king Ahab
Lexicon
Derivation: from H336 (אִי)lemma אי missing vowel, corrected to אִי and H2083 (זְבֻל);
Izebel, the wife of king Ahab
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Jezebel.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- 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
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- 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)
strength, the leader › the hand that works › to cut, to sustain › the house, what is within › authority, the one who leads
Strength, the leader of the hand that works that works to cut, to sustain of the house, what is within of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אִיזֶבֶל 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
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- jezebel6 · 27%
- of jezebel3 · 14%
- for it was so, when jezebel1 · 5%
- when jezebel1 · 5%
- at jezebel's1 · 5%
- then jezebel1 · 5%
- but jezebel1 · 5%
- and jezebel1 · 5%
- as jezebel1 · 5%
- to jezebel1 · 5%
- and it came to pass, when jezebel1 · 5%
- that jezebel1 · 5%
- and of jezebel1 · 5%
- whom jezebel1 · 5%
- this is jezebel1 · 5%
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.