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JEZREEL

(Heb. yizrĕʿeʾl)

(PERSON)

1. A Judahite descent group (1 Chr. 4:3), probably a unit of the Hurites associated with the locality Jezreel in Josh. 15:56.

2. The double-edged, symbolic name of Hosea’s first son. Hos. 1:4 uses the name as a threat, since the locale Jezreel connotes Jehu’s bloody destruction of the Omrides (2 Kgs. 10:11). Hos. 1:5 goes further, locating the threat in the “valley of Jezreel.” Hos. 2:22(MT 24), by contrast, has the name “God sows” promise future bounty (also Hos. 1:11[2:2]; cf. Ps. 81:10, 16[11, 17]). The subsequent verse repeats the name’s root, “sow,” in a metaphor promising Israel’s post-punishment resettlement (cf. Ps. 80:8-9[9-10]).

Stephen L. Cook






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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