yizrel · Jezreel

What it means

yizrel (יִזְרְעֵאל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jezreel”.

The city and the valley in the north of Israel; also a town of Judah in the hill country, a man of Judah and a son of the prophet Hosea. The name means "God sows."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Jezreel

  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).

  1 Kings 21:12 Kings 9:301 Samuel 29:1Joshua 19:18

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×14
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Hosea×5

• Joshua 15:56

  Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

• Joshua 17:16

  And the sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanite who live in the land of the valley, both those in Beth-shean and its towns and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

• Joshua 19:18

  And their territory was Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

• Judges 6:33

  All Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east gathered together, crossed over, and camped in the valley of Jezreel.

• 1 Samuel 25:43

  David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.

• 1 Samuel 29:1

  The Philistines gathered all their camps at Aphek, and Israel was camped by the spring that is in Jezreel.

• 1 Samuel 29:11

  David rose early, he and his men, to go in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines; and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

• 2 Samuel 2:9

  and made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

• 2 Samuel 4:4

  Now Jonathan son of Saul had a son injured in the feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled; and it happened, as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

• 1 Kings 4:12

  Baana son of Ahilud, Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-shean, which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

• 1 Kings 18:45

  And it happened, in the meantime, that the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode in his chariot and went to Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 18:46

  The hand of YHWH was on Elijah; and he girded his waist and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 21:1

  And it happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard that was in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

• 1 Kings 21:23

  And also concerning Jezebel YHWH has spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 8:29

  King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.

• 2 Kings 9:10

  And Jezebel the dogs will eat in the portion of Jezreel, and there will be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

• 2 Kings 9:15

  but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Jehu said, “If this is your will, let no survivor get out of the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

• 2 Kings 9:16

  Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there; and Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

• 2 Kings 9:17

  The watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is there peace?’”

• 2 Kings 9:30

  Jehu came to Jezreel, and Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes with antimony and adorned her head and looked down through the window.

• 2 Kings 9:36

  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;

• 2 Kings 9:37

  and 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.”’”

• 2 Kings 10:1

  Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the commanders of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab’s sons, saying,

• 2 Kings 10:6

  He wrote to them a letter a second time, saying, “If you are for me, and you are listening to my voice, take the heads of the men, the sons of your master, and come to me about this time tomorrow at Jezreel.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing up them.

• 2 Kings 10:7

  And it happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 10:11

  Jehu struck all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him no survivor.

• 1 Chronicles 4:3

  And these were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.

• 2 Chronicles 22:6

  He returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds that they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Azariah son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was sick.

• Hosea 1:4

  And YHWH said to him: Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will call the house of Jehu to account for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

• Hosea 1:5

  And it will happen on that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

• Hosea 1:11

  And the children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head, and they will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

• Hosea 2:22

  and the earth will respond to the grain and to the new wine and to the oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.

And 4 more times.