יְרֻבַּעַלYᵉrubbaʻal
proper name, masculine: name given to Gideon (Judges 6:32; Proverbs 3:30; Judges 21:28; Judges 7:1; Judges 8:29)
Pronunciation: yer-oob-bah'-al · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3378
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Judges 6:32 From then on Gideon was called Jerub-baal, which means “Let Baal defend himself,” because he broke down Baal’s altar.
- Judges 7:1 So Jerub-baal (that is, Gideon) and his army got up early and went as far as the spring of Harod. The armies of Midian were camped north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
- Judges 8:29 Then Gideon son of Joash returned home.
- Judges 8:35 Nor did they show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-baal (that is, Gideon), despite all the good he had done for Israel.
- Judges 9:1 One day Gideon’s son Abimelech went to Shechem to visit his uncles—his mother’s brothers. He said to them and to the rest of his mother’s family,
- Judges 9:2 “Ask the leading citizens of Shechem whether they want to be ruled by all seventy of Gideon’s sons or by one man. And remember that I am your own flesh and blood!”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).