yizreli · Jezreelite

What it means

yizreli (יִזְרְעֵאלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jezreelite”.

A native of Jezreel, a city in the plain of the same name, where the kings of Israel had a palace.

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A native of Jezreel, a city of the fertile valley in the north of Israel.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Kings×2

• 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 21:4

  Ahab went into his house resentful and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, when he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and did not eat bread.

• 1 Kings 21:6

  He spoke to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for silver; or if you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in its place’; and he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise the kingship over Israel! Get up, eat bread, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  And it happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for silver; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  And it happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• 2 Kings 9:21

  Joram said, “Hitch up.” And his chariot was hitched up, and Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the plot of Naboth the Jezreelite.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  He said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, throw him into the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how I and you were riding side by side behind Ahab his father, when YHWH lifted up against him this oracle: