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Jezreel, (May God Give Seed), ancient city of Palestine, capital of the northern kingdom of Israel under King Ahab, located on a spur of Mt. Gilboa in Israel. King Saul was slain there in a battle with the Philistines. It was called Esdraelon in the book of Judith; to the crusaders it was Parvum.
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Jezreel was a city in the plain, or valley, of Esdraelon. The area surrounding the city was also called the Valley of Jezreel. The word Jezreel comes from two Hebrew root words meaning “to sow” and “almighty.”. Put together, the two root words mean “God will sow.”.
Jezreel, Hebrew Yizre’el, meaning “God sows,” is mentioned more than 30 times in the Hebrew Bible as the setting for a series of dramatic events during the reigns of Kings Ahab, Joram, and Jehu of the northern kingdom of Israel.
A city in the hill country of Judah. Joshua 15:56 is part of a long list of cities inherited by the tribe of Judah. Jezreel is there, but with no indication of its location except that it was in the hill country; one might suppose some m. S or SE of Jerusalem.
Jezreel. ( seed of God ), a descendant of the father or founder of Etam, of the line of Judah. ( 1 Chronicles 4:3) (B.C. about 1445). ATS Bible Dictionary. Jezreel. 1. A celebrated city of Issachar, Joshua 19:18, lying westward of Bethshean, 2 Samuel 4:4.
Tel Jezreel (Hebrew: יִזְרְעֶאל, romanized: Yizrəʿʾel, lit. 'God will sow') is an archaeological site in the eastern Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. The city of Jezreel served as a main fortress of the Northern Kingdom of Israel under king Ahab in the 9th century BCE.
Jezreel was a city of the tribe of Issachar (Josh 19:18). The city was located within the Fifth Solomonic District (1 Kgs 4:12). The natural hill on which Jezreel sits is located on the western end of Mount Gilboa. It acts as a sentinel guarding the passage from the Jezreel Valley into the Harod Valley and beyond to the Jordan Valley.
