Study it in the app“They came back and told him, and he said, “It is the word of YHWH that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the portion of Jezreel the dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel;”
They came backוַיָּשֻׁבוּand toldוַיַּגִּידוּhim,לוֹand he said,וַיֹּאמֶר“Itהוּאis the wordדְּבַרof YHWHיְהוָהthatאֲשֶׁרhe spokeדִּבֶּרthroughבְּיַדhis servantעַבְדּוֹElijahאֵלִיָּהוּthe Tishbite,הַתִּשְׁבִּיsaying,לֵאמֹר‘In the portionבְּחֵלֶקof Jezreelיִזְרְעֶאלthe dogsהַכְּלָבִיםwill eatיֹאכְלוּthe fleshבְּשַׂרof Jezebel;אִיזָבֶל
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashuvu” appearstell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “yagidu” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “diber” appearsthrough
Literally "by the hand of": that person is the one who does it or carries it.
Where else “yad” appearsservant of YHWH
YHWH's servant, like Moses or David.
Where else “avd” appearsElijah
Elijah: a name meaning "my El is YHWH." It is the prophet from Gilead who confronted King Ahab and the worship of Baal (1 Kings 17–2 Kings 2); two other Israelites bear the same name (1 Chronicles 8:27; Ezra 10:21).
Where else “eliyahu” appearsTishbite
Tishbite: from Tishbe, a place in Gilead, east of the Jordan. It is the epithet of the prophet Elijah.
Where else “tishbi” appearsportion
What falls to one: "YHWH is what I receive".
Where else “chelek” appearsJezreel
See it on the mapWhere else “yizrel” appearsdog
An animal that roams the city and eats what it finds, even carrion.
Where else “kelavim” appearseat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “yochlu” appearsflesh
The body of a person or animal, the soft part covering the bones.
Where else “besar” appearsJezebel
Jezebel: a name of uncertain meaning. She is the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, and wife of King Ahab, who promoted the worship of Baal in Israel and persecuted the prophets of YHWH.
Where else “izavel” appearsJezreel
Today: Zir'in and the Jezreel Valley, Israel
A city and valley in northern Israel, between Galilee and Samaria.
There Ahab and Jezebel took Naboth's vineyard (1 Kgs 21:1-16), and Jezebel died there (2 Kgs 9:30-37).
35They went to bury her, but they did not find of her anything but the skull and the feet and the palms of the hands.
36 · This verse (above)
37and the corpse of Jezebel will be like dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they will not say, “This is Jezebel.”’”
