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jer-ub-bē´sheth, jē̇-rub´ē̇-sheth (ירבּש×ת, yerubbesheth, see JERUBBAAL, for meaning): It is found once () for JERUBBAAL.
The word בּש×ת, boÌ„sheth, “shameful thing,†was substituted by later editors of the text for בּעל, ba‛al, “lord,†in the text of ; ; in , etc., we find Ish-bosheth = Eshbaal (Ishbaal) in ; . The reason for this was reluctant to pronounce the word Ba‛al, which had by their time been associated with Canaanitic forms of worship. In Septuagint, Lucian, has “Jeroboal,†which Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus, has corrupted to “Jeroboam.†Compare MERIB-BAAL; MEPHIBOSHETH; and see Ginsburg, New Massoretico-Critical Text of the Hebrew Bible, Intro, 400ff. For a New Testament case compare and see Sanday and Headlam at the place. See JERUBBAAL.