Bible Names

Jezebel: meaning of the name

Jezebel means “chaste.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Jezebel in Hebrew and Greek

אִיזֶבֶל H348

ʼÎyzebel (ee-zeh'-bel) — Izebel, the wife of king Ahab

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

Who named Jezebel in the Bible

Jezebel in Scripture

“Jezebel” appears in 20 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 16:31

    And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

  • 1 Kings 18:4

    For 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 18:13

    Was 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 18:19

    Now 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 19:1

    And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

  • 1 Kings 19:2

    Then 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 21:5

    But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

  • 1 Kings 21:7

    And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.