Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4648
מְפִיבֹשֶׁת
Mephiboshethmef-ee-bo'-sheth
Mephibosheth
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mᵉphîybôsheth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4648is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4648
Mephibosheth, the name of two Israelites
The King James renders it: Mephibosheth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Mephibosheth is rendered "Mephibosheth". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eighteen of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 4:4And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel 4:4מְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eighteen of the word's eighteen uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and Mephibosheth4
- Mephibosheth4
- -bosheth3
- Mephi-2
- O Mephibosheth2
- and to Mephibosheth1
- of Mephibosheth1
- to Mephi-1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בֹ֖שֶׁת2
- וּמְפִיבֹ֗שֶׁת2
- מְפִי־2
- מְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃2
- בֹ֑שֶׁת1
- וְלִמְפִיבֹ֥שֶׁת1
- וּמְפִבֹ֙שֶׁת֙1
- וּמְפִיבֹ֙שֶׁת֙1
- לִמְפִי־1
- לִמְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃1
- מְפִבֹ֑שֶׁת1
- מְפִיבֹ֨שֶׁת1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)11HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
2 Samuel
eighteen uses
And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
- מְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃mefivoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: Mephibosheth
And when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied.
- מְפִיבֹ֨שֶׁתmefivoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: Mephibosheth
- מְפִיבֹ֔שֶׁתmefivoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: O Mephibosheth
You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
- וּמְפִיבֹ֙שֶׁת֙umefivoshetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mephibosheth
And Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do all that my lord the king has commanded.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s own sons.
- וּמְפִיבֹ֗שֶׁתumefivoshetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mephibosheth
And Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica, and all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.
- וְלִמְפִיבֹ֥שֶׁתvelimfivoshetconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Mephibosheth
- לִמְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃limfivoshetpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Mephibosheth
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet.
- וּמְפִיבֹ֗שֶׁתumefivoshetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mephibosheth
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
- מְפִי־mefi-proper noun (a name)tagged: Mephi-
- בֹ֖שֶׁתvoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: -bosheth
So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
- לִמְפִי־limfi-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Mephi-
- בֹ֑שֶׁתvoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: -bosheth
Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
- וּמְפִבֹ֙שֶׁת֙umefivoshetconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mephibosheth
And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
- מְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃mefivoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: O Mephibosheth
And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
- מְפִיבֹ֙שֶׁת֙mefivoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: Mephibosheth
Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
- מְפִי־mefi-proper noun (a name)tagged: Mephi-
- בֹ֖שֶׁתvoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: -bosheth
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
- מְפִבֹ֑שֶׁתmefivoshetproper noun (a name)tagged: Mephibosheth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.