Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?

New American Standard Bible

But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating food?”

King James Version

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

Holman Bible

Then his wife Jezebel came to him and said to him, “Why are you so upset that you refuse to eat?”

International Standard Version

But his wife Jezebel went to him and asked him, "How is it that you're so sullen and refusing to eat?"

A Conservative Version

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is thy spirit so sad that thou eat no bread?

American Standard Version

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

Amplified

Then Jezebel his wife came to him and asked him, “Why is your spirit so troubled that you have not eaten?”

Darby Translation

And Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is thy spirit sullen, and thou eatest no bread?

Julia Smith Translation

And Jezebel his wife will come to him, and she will speak to him, What this thy spirit rebellious, and thou not eating bread?

King James 2000

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then Jezebel his wife came to him, and she said to him, "What is this, that your spirit is sullen and you are not eating food?"

Modern King James verseion

And his wife Jezebel came to him and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad that you are not eating food?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And then Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, "Why art thou so froward, that thou eatest no meat?"

NET Bible

Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, "Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?"

New Heart English Bible

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, "Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?"

The Emphasized Bible

Then came unto him Jezebel his wife, - and said unto him - Why is it, that thy spirit is sullen, that thou art, not eating food?

Webster

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

World English Bible

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, "Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?"

Youngs Literal Translation

And Jezebel his wife cometh in unto him, and speaketh unto him, 'What is this? -- thy spirit sulky, and thou art not eating bread!'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
איזבל 
'Iyzebel 
Usage: 22

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

to him, and said
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

so sad
סר 
Car 
Usage: 3

that thou eatest
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

References

Context Readings

The Vineyard Of Naboth The Jezreelite

4 So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food. 5 But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food? 6 And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

2 Samuel 13:4

And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

1 Kings 16:31

And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

1 Kings 18:4

For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

1 Kings 21:25

(There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

Nehemiah 2:2

And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;

Esther 4:5

Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

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