Noun:

ईजेबेल,

jezreel's Usage Examples:

The sky was speedily full of clouds and a great rain was falling when Ahab, to escape the storm, set out in his chariot for Jezreel.

4 As the account of this has been lost and the narrative is concerned not with the plain of Jezreel but rather with Shechem, it has been inferred that the episode implies the existence of a distinct story wherein Gideon's pursuit is such an act of vengeance.

See, for an excellent description of the scenery and history of the Israelite Jezreel, G.

A second city named Jezreel lay in the hill country of Judah, somewhere near Hebron (Josh.

The name was also applied to the great plain (Esdraelon) dominated by the city ("valley of Jezreel," Josh.

8, it is significant that the scene of Absalom's exile lay to the south, that Ahithophel was a south Judaean, and that Amasa probably belonged to the Jezreel 2 with which David was connected through his wife Ahinoam.

He is related by marriage with south Judaean clans of Caleb, Jezreel, and probably Geshur.

He was no longer an outlaw with a band of wandering companions, but a petty chieftain, head of a small colony of men, allied with families of Caleb and Jezreel (in Judah), and on friendly footing with the sheikhs south of Hebron.

The Philistines for once directed their forces towards the plain of Jezreel (Esdraelon) in the north; and Saul, forsaken by Yahweh, already gave himself up for lost.

Disaster had come upon the north, and the plain of Jezreel saw the total defeat of the king and the rout of his army.