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Headword: *)ieza/bel
Adler number: iota,144
Translated headword: Jezebel
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Wife of king Ahab, a woman daring and rash, she displayed such impiety and madness as even to establish a shrine of the god of the Tyrians and Sidonians. Ahab himself, too, surpassed his predecessors in folly and wickedness.[1]
The prophet Elijah was a contemporary of these people.
Greek Original:
*)ieza/bel, gunh\ tou= *)axaa\b basile/ws, gu/naion drasth/rion kai\ tolmhro/n, ei)s tosau/thn a)se/beian kai\ mani/an proe/pesen w(/ste kai\ nao\n tw=| *turi/wn kai\ *sidwni/wn qew=| kataskeua/sai. kai\ au)to\s de\ o( *)axaa\b a)noi/a| kai\ ponhri/a| pa/ntas tou\s pro\ au(tou= u(perbe/bhken. e)pi\ tou/twn h)=n *)hli/as o( profh/ths.
Notes:
See also iota 145.
[1] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 8.318 (web address 1). For Ahab see generally alpha 4667.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 October 2004@07:20:14.
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Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 25 October 2004@02:04:20.
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