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iezabelJezebel

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
694 times in 345 works
Consistency
99.1% (694 of 700)
Reach if approved
~736 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: jezabel
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
700 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (694 changes in 345 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 694)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lie vnpunished? Nay, they and their posterities shall smart for it; let Ahab, and IezabelJezebel, and Iulian, say if it bee not so: and all ages or stories, …hewe …
    With rule
    … lie vnpunished? Nay, they and their posterities shall smart for it; let Ahab, and IezabelJezebel, and Iulian, say if it bee not so: and all ages or stories, …hewe …

    William Perkins · The Calling of the Ministry · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ymagine how to gette the bloud of theyr brethren. As for the imaginacion of IezabelJezebel, to optayn the vineyarde, the enheritaunce of Nabothe, it is no ſtraūge thing in …
    With rule
    … ymagine how to gette the bloud of theyr brethren. As for the imaginacion of IezabelJezebel, to optayn the vineyarde, the enheritaunce of Nabothe, it is no ſtraūge thing in …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the endeuour and deuising by al meanes possible to bring it to passe, as IezabelJezebel did to bring Naboth to his death: Thē ensueth the act it selfe, that …
    With rule
    … the endeuour and deuising by al meanes possible to bring it to passe, as IezabelJezebel did to bring Naboth to his death: Thē ensueth the act it selfe, that …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 703 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vnto him. Another yet maketh Religion, but as a cloke to greater vilanies: ſo IezabelJezebel purpoſing by falſe witneſſes to take away Naboths life, yet would grace the matter …
    With rule
    … vnto him. Another yet maketh Religion, but as a cloke to greater vilanies: ſo IezabelJezebel purpoſing by falſe witneſſes to take away Naboths life, yet would grace the matter …

    Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    I have against thee a fevv things, that thou suffrest the vvoman IezabelJezebel, vvhich calleth herself a Propheresse, to teach and to deceyve my servants, that they …
    With rule
    I have against thee a fevv things, that thou suffrest the vvoman IezabelJezebel, vvhich calleth herself a Propheresse, to teach and to deceyve my servants, that they …

    Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … chooſe but wonder, that any ſhould be ſo bewitched with the ſorceries of this IezabelJezebel, or made drunke with the wine of her fornication, that they ſhould take her …
    With rule
    … chooſe but wonder, that any ſhould be ſo bewitched with the ſorceries of this IezabelJezebel, or made drunke with the wine of her fornication, that they ſhould take her …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … hid the Prophets of the Lord in caues, to ſaue them from Ahab, and IezabelJezebel, in time of perſecution.
    With rule
    … hid the Prophets of the Lord in caues, to ſaue them from Ahab, and IezabelJezebel, in time of perſecution.

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 344 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … they doe, but rare and seldome. To begin with 1 Kings 21.8. Where we find, That IezabelJezebel wrote Letters in Ahabs name to the Elders, and to the Nobles that were …
    With rule
    … they doe, but rare and seldome. To begin with 1 Kings 21.8. Where we find, That IezabelJezebel wrote Letters in Ahabs name to the Elders, and to the Nobles that were …

    William Pemble · The Period of the Persian Monarchy · p. 73 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

  • Printed
    … immediate Executioner. In Naboths death the Iudges and falſe witneſſes were the next Agents. IEZABELJEZEBEL the plotter only, and inſtigator; ſhe is puniſhed for ſheading Naboths bloud, though her …
    With rule
    … immediate Executioner. In Naboths death the Iudges and falſe witneſſes were the next Agents. IEZABELJEZEBEL the plotter only, and inſtigator; ſhe is puniſhed for ſheading Naboths bloud, though her …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 177 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … others to commit. AHAB wrought euill in the ſight of the Lord, &c. whom IEZABELJEZEBEL his Wife prouoked. AHABS ſinnes are Iezabels ſinnes; becauſe ſhee prouoked to commit them.
    With rule
    … others to commit. AHAB wrought euill in the ſight of the Lord, &c. whom IEZABELJEZEBEL his Wife prouoked. AHABS ſinnes are Iezabels ſinnes; becauſe ſhee prouoked to commit them.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 177 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … without aduenture of his life, hides the Prophets in Caues from the rage of IEZABELJEZEBEL. So precious in former times were the perſons of Miniſters.
    With rule
    … without aduenture of his life, hides the Prophets in Caues from the rage of IEZABELJEZEBEL. So precious in former times were the perſons of Miniſters.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 470 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … to hold their owne; not to ſeparate from the Angell, which hath not ſeparated IEzABELJezebel from the Church.
    With rule
    … to hold their owne; not to ſeparate from the Angell, which hath not ſeparated IEzABELJezebel from the Church.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 555 · Open in the reader