A name from Scripture
Jezreel
JEZ-ree-el
Meaning
God sows; God plants; God will scatter
Hebrew origin · Unisex · First in Joshua
What it points to
Jezreel — 'God sows' — transforms from a name of judgment to a name of hope. What God scatters in discipline, He replants in mercy. Judgment is never God's final word.
Verses · King James Version
“And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu.”
Hosea 1:4
“And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. And I will sow her unto me in the earth.”
Hosea 2:22-23