Jezebel

1. A queen of the Kingdom of Israel, living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.16.31

• jezebel 19
• to jezebel 1
• of jezebel 1
• and jezebel 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 Kings 13
• 2 Kings 6

2 books in all.

• Jezebel (Iezabēl)

• 1 Kings 18:4For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
• 1 Kings 18:13Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
• 1 Kings 18:19Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.
• 1 Kings 19:1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
• 1 Kings 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
• 1 Kings 21:5But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “jezebel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.