Jez·e·bel /ˈʤɛzəˌbɛl/
 以色列王Ahab之妃


 Jez·e·bel n.  A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.

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 Jezebel
      n 1: wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old
           Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the
           worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other
           prophets of Israel (9th century BC)
      2: a shameless impudent scheming woman


 Jezebel
    chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and
    the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was
    the "first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by
    marriage with a heathen princess; and the alliance was in this
    case of a peculiarly disastrous kind. Jezebel has stamped her
    name on history as the representative of all that is designing,
    crafty, malicious, revengeful, and cruel. She is the first great
    instigator of persecution against the saints of God. Guided by
    no principle, restrained by no fear of either God or man,
    passionate in her attachment to her heathen worship, she spared
    no pains to maintain idolatry around her in all its splendour.
    Four hundred and fifty prophets ministered under her care to
    Baal, besides four hundred prophets of the groves [R.V.,
    'prophets of the Asherah'], which ate at her table (1 Kings
    18:19). The idolatry, too, was of the most debased and sensual
    kind." Her conduct was in many respects very disastrous to the
    kingdom both of Israel and Judah (21:1-29). At length she came
    to an untimely end. As Jehu rode into the gates of Jezreel, she
    looked out at the window of the palace, and said, "Had Zimri
    peace, who slew his master?" He looked up and called to her
    chamberlains, who instantly threw her from the window, so that
    she was dashed in pieces on the street, and his horses trod her
    under their feet. She was immediately consumed by the dogs of
    the street (2 Kings 9:7-37), according to the word of Elijah the
    Tishbite (1 Kings 21:19).

      Her name afterwards came to be used as the synonym for a
    wicked woman (Rev. 2: 20).

      It may be noted that she is said to have been the grand-aunt
    of Dido, the founder of Carthage.



 Jezebel, chaste