Ἰεζάβελ
Iezabel
Proper feminine noun · Of Hebrew origin איזבל (H348)
Of Hebrew origin (H348); Jezabel (i.e. Jezebel), a Tyrian woman (used as a synonym of a termagant or false teacher):—Jezabel.
Outline
- Jezebel = "chaste"
- wife of Ahab, an impious and cruel queen who protected idolatry and persecuted the prophets
- 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