Original: Ἰεζαβήλ

Transliteration: Iezabḗl

Phonetic: ee-ed-zab-ale'

Short Definition: Jezabel

- Original: Ἰεζαβήλ

- Transliteration: Iezabel

- Phonetic: ee-ed-zab-ale'

- Definition: Jezebel = "chaste"

1. wife of Ahab, an impious and cruel queen who protected idolatry and persecuted the prophets

2. the symbolic name of a woman who pretended to be a prophetess, and who, addicted to antinomianism, claimed Christian liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols

- Origin: of hebrew origin H348

- TDNT entry: 06:37,3

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Of hebrew origin [H348]; Jezabel (that is Jezebel) a Tyrian woman (used as a synonym of a termagant or false teacher): - Jezabel.