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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jerubbaal:

contender with Baal; or, let Baal plead, a surname of Gideon; a name given to him because he destroyed the altar of Baal (Jdg 6:32; 7:1; 8:29; 1Sa 12:11).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Jerubbaal:

he that defends Baal, let Baal defend his cause

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Jerubbaal:

jer-u-ba'-al, je-rub'-a-al (yerubba‘al, "let Baal contend"): The name given to Gideon by his father, Joash, and the people in recognition of his destruction of the altar of Baal at Ophrah (Jud 6:32). For this name the form "Jerubbesheth" (2Sa 1:21) was substituted after the analogy of "Ishbosheth" and "Mephibosheth," in which bosheth, the Hebrew word for "shame," displaced the word ba‘al, no doubt because the name resembled one given in honor of Baal.

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