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Definition: Jezebel |
JezebelNoun1. Wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC). 2. A shameless impudent scheming woman. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Jezebel" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "chaste", "not acclaimed". |
Date "Jezebel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
Etymology: Jezebel \Jez"e*bel\, noun. [From Jezebel, Hebrew Izebel, the wife of Ahab king of Israel.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Jezebel chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the "first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with a heathen princess; and the alliance was in this case of a peculiarly disastrous kind. Jezebel has stamped her name on history as the representative of all that is designing, crafty, malicious, revengeful, and cruel. She is the first great instigator of persecution against the saints of God. Guided by no principle, restrained by no fear of either God or man, passionate in her attachment to her heathen worship, she spared no pains to maintain idolatry around her in all its splendour. Four hundred and fifty prophets ministered under her care to Baal, besides four hundred prophets of the groves [R.V., 'prophets of the Asherah'], which ate at her table (1 Kings 18:19). The idolatry, too, was of the most debased and sensual kind." Her conduct was in many respects very disastrous to the kingdom both of Israel and Judah (21:1-29). At length she came to an untimely end. As Jehu rode into the gates of Jezreel, she looked out at the window of the palace, and said, "Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?" He looked up and called to her chamberlains, who instantly threw her from the window, so that she was dashed in pieces on the street, and his horses trod her under their feet. She was immediately consumed by the dogs of the street (2 Kings 9:7-37), according to the word of Elijah the Tishbite (1 Kings 21:19). Her name afterwards came to be used as the synonym for a wicked woman (Rev. 2: 20). It may be noted that she is said to have been the grand-aunt of Dido, the founder of Carthage. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Jezebel A painted Jezebel. A flaunting woman of bold spirit, but loose morals; so called from Queen Jezebel, the wife of Ahab. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Jezebel may mean there is no prince or chaste. In the Bible, Jezebel is the name of two women.
The name Jezebel has come down through the centuries as a general name for all wicked women.
- In the Old Testament, Jezebel is the name of a Queen of Israel, whose story is told in 1 Kings. Jezebel was a pagan, the daughter of King Ithobaal I of Tyre, who married King Ahab. The Bible blames her from turning Ahab away from the true God, and towards the worship of her god, Baal. She is accused of killing the prophets of the Lord, and Elijah charges her with abominations. After Ahab's death she continued to rule through her sons Ahaziah and Joram. When these were killed by Jehu, Jezebel was also killed, and her body eaten by dogs in fulfillment of Elijah's prophecy.
- In the New Testament, Jezebel is a prophetess in the city of Thyatira. She is accused in Acts 2:20 of inducing members of the church there to commit acts of sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Some authorities suggest that the author of Acts here uses the name Jezebel as a nickname, knowing that readers in Thyatira would know who was being referred to, and would also know of the deeds of the previous Jezebel recorded in 1 Kings.
Jezebel is also the name of a 1938 film that tells the story of a headstrong young Southern woman during the years prior to the American Civil War, and how her actions cost her the love of the man she truly loves. It stars Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp and Fay Bainter.
The film was adapted by Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, John Huston and Robert Buckner, from the play by Owen Davis Sr. It was directed by William Wyler.
The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Fay Bainter won for Best Supporting Actress and Bette Davis won for Best Actress. On the basis of this Oscar win, Davis was a strong consideration for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Bad woman, jade, Jezebel. |
Evil doer | Hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel. |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Jezebel |
| English words defined with "Jezebel": Ahab ♦ Elijah. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Jezebel": Companions of Jehu ♦ Ethbaal, Eth-baal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Where do you think Jezebel came from (Jacob's Ladder; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin) Still he must conquer that red-headed Jezebel! (The Conqueror; writing credit: Oscar Millard) I'm thinkin' of a woman called Jezebel who did evil in the sight of God. (Jezebel; writing credit: Owen Davis; Clements Ripley) | |
Lyrics | Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Joys of Jezebel (1970) Sins of Jezebel (1953) Jezebel (1938) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| "Jezebel" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Jezebel" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Jezebel" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "chaste", "not acclaimed". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Jezebel." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Jezebel | N/A | Biblical | N/A |
| Jezebel | Female | Biblical | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Jezebel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ajo që bën naze. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развратница (trollop, wantonness), безсрамница (shameless woman). (various references) | |
Farsi | سلیطه (Shrew), زن شریروبدکار, ایزابل . (various references) | |
German | schlange (coil, line, procession, queue, serpent, snake, string, train, viper). (various references) | |
Greek | έκφυλη γυναίκα, ιεζαβέλ, ξεδιάντροπη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jezabel. (various references) | |
Italian | megera (beldame, harridan, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen, Xanthippe), donnaccia (rag bag, slattern, slob), arpia (harpy). (various references) | |
Manx | shenn-chaillagh ghaait. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ezebeljay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mulher sem vergonha, mulher que pinta o rosto, mulher perdida. (various references) | |
Russian | распутница (minx, quean), Иезавель, иезавель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jezavelja, razvratnica. (various references) | |
Spanish | jezabel. (various references) | |
Swedish | kokott (cocotte). (various references) | |
Thai | หญิงที่ชั่วร้าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | kötü kadın (a bad woman, prostitute, scarlet woman), ahlaksız kadın. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпусна жінка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đ n b phóng đâng hư hỏng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 21, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen acaab en tini kai eipen tade legei kurioV en toiV paidarioiV twn arcontwn twn cwrwn kai eipen acaab tiV sunayei ton polemon kai eipen su |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Miseruntque ad Hiezabel dicentes lapidatus est Naboth et mortuus est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei senten to Jesabel, seiynge, Naboth is stoned, and is deed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead. |
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| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 21, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Unya sila nagpasugo ngadto kang Jezabel, nga nagaingon: Si Naboth gibato ug namatay na. |
| Croatian | Zatim poruèiše Izebeli: "Nabot je kamenovan i umro je." |
| Danish | Så sendte de Jesabel det Bud: "Nabot er stenet til Døde!" |
| Dutch | Daarna zonden zij tot Izebel, zeggende: Naboth is gestenigd en is dood. |
| Finnish | Sitten he lähettivät Iisebelille tämän sanan: "Naabot on kivitetty kuoliaaksi". |
| French | Et ils envoyèrent dire Jézabel: Naboth a été lapidé, et il est mort. |
| German | Und sie entboten Isebel und ließen ihr sagen: Naboth ist gesteinigt und tot. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Berita tentang pelaksanaan pembunuhan Nabot disampaikan kepada Izebel. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sudah itu maka disuruhkannya orang pergi menghadap Izebel, mengatakan: Si Nabot itu sudah mati dilontari dengan batu. |
| Italian | Quindi mandarono a dire a Gezabele: «Nabot è stato lapidato ed è morto». |
| Maori | Katahi ratou ka tono tangata ki a Ietepere, ka mea, Kua oti a Napoto te aki ki te kohatu, a kua mate. |
| Norwegian | Så sendte de bud til Jesabel og lot si: Nabot er blitt stenet og er død. |
| Portuguese | Depois mandaram dizer a Jezabel : Nabote foi apedrejado e morreu. |
| Rumanian | Wi au trimes sq spunq Izabelei: ,,Nabot a fost kmprowcat cu pietre, wi a murit.`` |
| Spanish | Después enviaron a decir a Jezabel: "Nabot ha sido apedreado y ha muerto." |
| Swedish | Därefter sände de bud till Isebel och läto säga: "Nabot har blivit stenad till döds." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Jezebel": jezebels. (additional references) | |
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"Jezebel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gezebel, jeebe, Jeebl, jesabel, jezable, jezbel, jezebl, jezebul, jezible, Jezreel, jezzebel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Jezebel" (pronounced 'Jez"e*bel'): BABEL, Belibel, Bonnibel, Cascabel, Cerebel, Debel, Flabel, Gabel, Swimbel, umbel. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-j-l-z" | |
-2 letters: bezel, jebel. | |
-3 letters: jeez. | |
-4 letters: bee, bel, eel, jee, lee, lez, zee. | |
-5 letters: be, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-j-l-z" | |
+1 letter: jezebels. | |
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