MEANING OF JEZEBEL

There appear to be two serious objections to the idea of your correspondent W.G.H. respecting the appearance of *Baal* in this word: 1. The original orthography (אִיזֶּבֶל); whereas the name of the deity is found on all Phœnician monuments, where it enters largely into the composition of proper names, written בעל: and, 2. The fact of female names being generally on these same monuments (as tombstones and so forth) compounded of the name of a *goddess*, specially Astarth (אַתִֹּרִת or עַ). I do not know that we have any example of a female name into which *Baal* enters. The derivation of the wo…