# H3378 יְרֻבַּעַל

יְרֻבַּעַל (Yᵉrubbaʻal), Strong’s H3378: Jerubbaal, a symbolic name of Gideon KJV: Jerubbaal.. Occurs 14 times.

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*Yᵉrubbaʻal* — Jerubbaal, a symbolic name of Gideon

KJV: Jerubbaal.

Built from [רִיב rîyb](https://besorah.bible/word/H7378) (to toss, i.e. grapple) + [בַּעַל Baʻal](https://besorah.bible/word/H1168) (Baal, a Phoenician deity) — means “Baal will contend”

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יְרֻבַּ֫עַל n.pr.m. name given to Gideon

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 6:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=32) — Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his…
- [Judges 7:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/7?v=1) — Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of…
- [Judges 8:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=29) — Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
- [Judges 8:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=35) — neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had…
- [Judges 9:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=1) — Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of…
- [Judges 9:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=2) — “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are…
- [Judges 9:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=5) — He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one…
- [Judges 9:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=16) — “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt…
- [Judges 9:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=19) — if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and…
- [Judges 9:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=24) — that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech…