BDB372 [H348]

אִיזֶבֶל proper name, feminine (sense uncertain, CISi. 158 there occurs the proper name, feminine בעלאזבל Baal exalts? or is husband to? [see זָבַל], of which אִיזֶבֶל is conjectured by DHM to be an intentional alteration, made for the purpose of avoiding the name Baal. If so, ׳א perhaps suggested to the Hebrew ear the idea of un-exalted or un-husbanded), queen of Ahab, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre 1Kgs 16:31; 1Kgs 18:4; 1Kgs 18:13; 1Kgs 18:19; 1Kgs 19:1; 1Kgs 19:2; 1Kgs 21:5 +; 2Kgs 9:7 +.


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