Original Word: מְרִיב בַּעַל
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Mriyb Ba`al
Pronunciation: meh-REEB bah-AHL
Phonetic Spelling: (mer-eeb' bah'-al)
KJV: Merib-baal
NASB: Merib-baal
Word Origin: [from H7378 (רִיבּ רוּב - contend) and H1168 (בַּעַל - Baal)]

1. quarreller of Baal, Merib-Baal, an epithet of Gideon

Merib-baal

From riyb and Ba'al; quarreller of Baal, Merib-Baal, an epithet of Gideon -- Merib-baal. Compare Mriy Ba'al.

see HEBREW riyb

see HEBREW Ba'al

see HEBREW Mriy Ba'al

Word Origin
from rib and Baal
Definition
perhaps "Baal is advocate," a son of Jonathan
NASB Translation
Merib-baal (4).

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).

2 מְפִבשֶׁת 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).

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