H0856 H0856
Ethbaal (personal name meaning "with Baal," king of Sidon, Jezebel's father)
This Phoenician king of Sidon gave his daughter Jezebel in marriage to Israel's King Ahab, an alliance that profoundly corrupted Israel's worship. The theophoric name "with Baal" or "Baal is with him" reflects the centrality of Baal worship in Phoenician royal ideology. Josephus confirms this ruler in his history of Phoenician kings.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Personal name of the Sidonian king in 1 Kings 16:31, whose daughter Jezebel married Ahab and introduced aggressive Baal worship into Israel. The name's Baal theophoric element highlights the religious conflict this marriage precipitated. Classical sources (Josephus) attest to Ethbaal as historical ruler of Tyre/Sidon, confirming the biblical reference to actual Near Eastern political realities. 1×
AR["أَتْبَعلَ"]·ben["ইৎবাল"]·DE["Etbaal"]·EN["Etbaal"]·FR["Etbaal"]·heb["אתבעל"]·HI["एत्बआल"]·ID["Etbaal"]·IT["Etbaal"]·jav["Ètbaal"]·KO["엗바알"]·PT["'Etba'al"]·RU["Этбаала"]·ES["Etbaal"]·SW["Ethbaali"]·TR["Etbaal'ın"]·urd["اتبعل"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֶתְבַּ֫עַל n.pr.m. Ethbaal (with Baal, i.e. living under B.’s favour; Ἰθόβαλος, Εἰθώβαλος JosAnt. viii, 13, 1, viii, 13, 2, c. Ap. 1, 18; on later king of like name, in Assyrian Tubaʾlu, v. COT Gn 10:15) king of Sidon, father of Jezebel 1 K 16:31.