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Jerubbesheth — the meaning of the Hebrew name יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת

יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת

Yᵉrubbesheth · pronounced yer-oob-beh'-sheth · Strong's H3380 · a man

Jerubbesheth means shame (i.e. the idol) will contend.

Built from

רִיב rîyb (from, H7378) — properly, to toss, i.e. grapple open in the lexicon ›

בֹּשֶׁת bôsheth (and, H1322) — 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. (KJV)

Every verse that names Jerubbesheth

1 occurrence in 1 verse — 2 Samuel

2Sam 11:21

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