Word

יִזְרְעֵאל

Yizrᵉʻêʼl · H3157 · Hebrew · proper noun · 36 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 places

Jezreelfirst named in Joshua 19:1822 verses
Jezreelfirst named in Joshua 15:568 verses
Valley of Jezreelfirst named in Joshua 17:163 verses
Jezreelfirst named in 2 Samuel 4:41 verse

This name belongs to 2 people

Jezreelson of Hosea4 verses
Jezreelson of Etam1 verse

Meanings

Jezreel

Town; located in the hill country; territory of Judah

Examples
Joshua 15:56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
1 Samuel 25:43 David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.
Jezreel

Town and valley; territory of Issachar

Examples
Joshua 17:16 The sons of Joseph then said, “The hill country is not enough for us, but all the Canaanites who live in the valley land have iron chariots, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns and those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.”
Joshua 19:18 Their territory was to Jezreel and included Chesulloth, Shunem,
Judges 6:33 Then all the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the people of the east assembled together; and they crossed over and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
Jezreel

Man; son of Etam; tribe of Judah

Examples
1 Chronicles 4:3 These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.
Jezreel

Man; son of prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer

Examples
Hosea 1:4 And the LORD said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
עָנָהto answer 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 4 groups

בin/on/with 18
מִןfrom 4
אֵלto, toward 1
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

10 occurrences in 6 groups

חֵלֶקportion, share, part 3
עֵמֶקvalley 3
דָּםblood 1
חֵילouter wall 1
יוֹםday, time 1
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Names of Locations003001010: יִזְרְעֵאל (Jezreel) names the town in the tribal territory allotted to Issachar (Joshua 19:18) and, by extension, the fertile plain surrounding it.
Names of Landforms003001008: יִזְרְעֵאל also names the broad valley where the Canaanites' iron chariots gathered and the Midianite coalition camped (Joshua 17:16; Judges 6:33).
Names of People003001007: יִזְרְעֵאל further serves as a personal name, most notably for Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, one of David's wives (1 Samuel 25:43), and as the symbolic name Hosea gave his son (Hosea 1:4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3157. Yizreel יִזְרְעֶאל 1. proper name, of a location (God soweth; Sabean אלדֿרא…

H3157. Yizreel
יִזְרְעֶאל 1. proper name, of a location (God soweth; Sabean אלדֿרא MordtZMG 1879, 489; see LagBN 131) — ׳י Jos 15:56; 2Sa 2:9 +; יִזְרְעֶ֑אל 1Sa 25:43; Jos 17:16 +; יִזְרְעֶ֫אלָה Jos 19:18 Jos 19:6t.:
a. city in the Negeb of Judah Jos 15:56; 1Sa 25:43 (home of Ahinoam, one of David's wives), site unknown; compare proper name, masculine 1Ch 4:3.
b. city in Issachar Jos 19:18 on northwest spur of Mt. Gilboa 2Sa 4:4 (compare 1Sa 31:1, 1Sa 31:8) 1Ki 4:12 (compare 1Sa 31:10, 1Sa 31:12), modern Zer`în (RobBR ii. 318 ff. BdPal 244), close to scene of great battle with Philistines 1Sa 29:1 (בְיִז אשׁר ׳בְּעַיִן, compare RobBR ii. 323) 1Sa 29:11; subject to Ishbosheth 2Sa 2:9 (yet see below), residence of Ahab and Jehoram of Israel 1Ki 18:45-46, 1Ki 21:1 (Naboth) 2Ki 8:29 (twice in verse) = 2Ch 22:6 (twice in verse), 2Ki 9:15 (twice in verse); 2Ki 9:16-17, 2Ki 9:30; 2Ki 10:11 compare ׳יִז דְּמֵי Hos 1:4, and symbolical name of Hosea's son Hos 1:4 (compare Che); — in 2Ki 10:1 for יִז ׳שָׂרֵי read שֹׁמְרוֺן שָׂרֵי so ᵐ5. Used by Hosea as representing Israel, with play on etymology, Hosea 2:24 (compare בָּאָרֶץ לִּי וּזְרַעְתִּיהָ Hosea 2:25), compare also יִז יוֺם ׳גָּדוֺל Hos 1:2. Territory immediately about the city is יִז ׳חֵלֶק 2Ki 9:10, 2Ki 9:36, 2Ki 9:37; compare יִז ׳חֵל 1Ki 21:23 (read probably חלק, see Th Klo after ᵑ9 ᵑ6; the adjacent plain is יִז ׳עֵמֶק (compare Di Jos 17:16 BdPal 229) Jos 17:16; Jdg 6:33; Hos 1:5 (perhaps also = ׳יִז 2Sa 2:9 above, || Gilead, Ephraim, Benjamin, etc.)
2. proper name, masculine a. Hosea's son Hos 1:4, compare 1b above
b. Judahite name 1Ch 4:3, compare 1a above

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of People2 occurrences Names of Locations34 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0