Bible Names

Jerubbesheth: meaning of the name

Jerubbesheth means “let the idol of confusion defend itself.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jerubbesheth in Hebrew and Greek

יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת H3380

Yᵉrubbesheth (yer-oob-beh'-sheth) — Jerubbesheth, a symbolic name for Gideon

from H7378 (רִיב) and H1322 (בֹּשֶׁת); shame (i.e. the idol) will contend;

Who named Jerubbesheth in the Bible

Jerubbesheth in Scripture

“Jerubbesheth” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 2 Samuel 11:21

    Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.