Jerubbesheth — the meaning of the Hebrew name יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת
יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת
Jerubbesheth means shame (i.e. the idol) will contend.
Built from
רִיב rîyb — properly, to toss, i.e. grapple open in the lexicon ›
בֹּשֶׁת bôsheth — shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause) open in the lexicon ›
Strong's definition
from H7378 and H1322; shame (i.e. the idol) will contend; Jerubbesheth, a symbolic name for Gideon.
First appearance
2Sam 11:21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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