Definition

Izebel, the wife of king Ahab

Etymology

from H336 (אִי)lemma אי missing vowel, corrected to אִי and H2083 (זְבֻל);

Where the KJV renders it

• Jezebel

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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