Word Study · Strong's H3378 · Hebrew
יְרֻבַּעַל
Yerubbaal
yer-oob-bah'-al
Strong's 1890 spelling: Yᵉrubbaʻal
“Jerubbaal, a symbolic name of Gideon”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Jerubbaal, a symbolic name of Gideon
Rendered in the KJV as
Jerubbaal.
- 14occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 9inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 14 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 9
- יְרֻבַּ֣עַל3
- יְרֻבַּ֥עַל2
- יְרֻבַּ֖עַל2
- יְרֻבַּ֛עַל2
- יְרֻבַּ֜עַל1
- יְרֻבַּ֙עַל֙1
- יְרֻבַּ֔עַל1
- יְרֻבָּ֑עַל1
- יְרֻבָּֽעַל׃ פ1
How it is rendered · 1
- Jerub-Baal14
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How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)14
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Judges13 occurrences
- Judges 6:32יְרֻבַּ֣עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 7:1יְרֻבַּ֜עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 8:29יְרֻבַּ֥עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 8:35יְרֻבַּ֖עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:1יְרֻבַּ֙עַל֙yerubaalproper noun (a name)Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:2יְרֻבַּ֔עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:5יְרֻבַּ֛עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:5יְרֻבַּ֛עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:16יְרֻבַּ֣עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:19יְרֻבַּ֥עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:24יְרֻבָּ֑עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:28יְרֻבַּ֖עַלyerubaalproper noun (a name)Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?here: Jerub-Baal
- Judges 9:57יְרֻבָּֽעַל׃ פyerubaalproper noun (a name)And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.here: Jerub-Baal