STRONGS G2403:
Ἰεζάβελ ([so
G T WH, L Ἱεζ.; Tr
-βέλ];
Rec. Ἰεζάβήλ),
ἡ, (
אִיזֶבֶל ['perhaps intact, chaste; cf. Agnes' (Gesenius)]),
Jezebel [modern:
Isabel], wife of Ahab ([circa]
B. C. 917-897;
1 Kings 16:29), an impious and cruel queen, who protected idolatry and persecuted the prophets (
1 Kings 16:31 —
2 Kings 9:30); in
Revelation 2:20 equivalent to
a second Jezebel, the symbolic name of a woman who pretended to be a prophetess, and who, addicted to antinomianism, claimed for Christians the liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols,
Revelation 2:20.
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