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Strong's #4807 - מְרִיב בַּעַל

Transliteration

Mᵉrîyb Baʻal

Phonetics

mer-eeb' bah'-al

Origin

from (H7378) and (H1168)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Merib-baal = "Baal is my advocate"
1. another name for Mephibosheth
  1. son of Jonathan and grandson of Saul

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (3)

1 Chronicles 3

BSB (3)

1 Chronicles 6

CSB (3)

1 Chronicles 3

ESV (3)

1 Chronicles 3

KJV (2)

1 Chronicles 2

LEB (3)

1 Chronicles 3

LSB (4)

1 Chronicles 4

N95 (4)

1 Chronicles 4

NAS (4)

1 Chronicles 4

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (4)

1 Chronicles 4

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מְרִיב בַּ֫עַל proper name, masculine ( baal is (our, my, his) advocate (?), compare Nes^Eg.120 Dr^284,4; but Grau^{Prop. N. 201} thinks מרי בעל original form = hero of Baal); —

1 son of Jonathan 1 Chronicles 8:34, בָּ֑עַל׳מ V:34; 1 Chronicles 9:40 = מְרִיבַֿעַל (err. ?) V:40 = מְפִיבשֶׁת (later change, see בּשֶׁת below בושׁ) 2 Samuel 4:4; 2 Samuel 9:6 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 9:10,11,12 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 9:13; 2 Samuel 16:1,4; 2 Samuel 19:26; 2 Samuel 19:31; 2 Samuel 21:7, מְפִבשֶׁת 2 Samuel 16:25 (called בֶּןשָֿׁאוּל); ᵐ5 in 2 Μεμφι Βοσθε, in 1Chronicles (usually) Μεριβααλ; ᵐ5^L Mεμφιβααλ in 2Samuel (except 2 Samuel 4:1,2etc., where notin HCT).

2מְפִבשֶׁת son of saul and Rispah, according to 2 Samuel 21:8, ᵐ5 (including ᵐ5^L) Μεμφιβοσθε.

רִיחַ, רֵיחַ see רוח. רֵים see רְאֵם.

[רֵיעַ] see II. רֵעַ below רעח. רִיעַ see ריּע

ריף (√ of following; meaning unknown).

List of Word Forms

בַּ֖עַל בָּ֑עַל בעל ba‘al bā‘al ba·‘al bā·‘al Baal