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jer-u-bā´al, jē̇-rub´ā̇-al (ירבּעל, yerubba‛al, “let Baal contendâ€): The name given to Gideon by his father, Joash, and the people in recognition of his destruction of the altar of Baal at Ophrah (). For this name the form “Jerubbesheth†() was substituted after the analogy of “Ishbosheth†and “Mephibosheth,†in which boÌ„sheth, the Hebrew word for “shame,†displaced the word bȧ‛al, no doubt because the name resembled one given in honor of Baal. See GIDEON.