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Strong's #2403: Iezabel (pronounced ee-ed-zab-ale')

of Hebrew origin (348); Jezabel (i.e. Jezebel), a Tyrian woman (used as a synonym of a termagant or false teacher):--Jezabel.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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Iezabēl

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

Part of Speech: noun proper feminine

Relation: of Hebrew origin H348

Citing in TDNT: 3:217, 348




Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

Revelation 2:20: "because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach"









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