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# מְפִיבֹשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4648

**Mephibosheth** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Mephibosheth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4648/#m1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mephibosheth (8); O Mephibosheth (2); \[was\] Mephibosheth (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 9:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.12/#tree)

וְלִמְפִיבֹ֥שֶׁת בֵּן־קָטָ֖ן וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מִיכָ֑א וְכֹל֙ מוֹשַׁ֣ב בֵּית־צִיבָ֔א עֲבָדִ֖ים לִמְפִיבֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* and \[belonged to\].Mephibosheth a.son young and name his \[was\].Mica and every (the).resident of.the.house of.Ziba \[were\].servants of Mephibosheth

*JPS 1917:* Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.

[2 Samuel 9:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.13/#tree)

וּמְפִיבֹ֗שֶׁת יֹשֵׁב֙ בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם כִּ֣י עַל־שֻׁלְחַ֥ן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ תָּמִ֖יד ה֣וּא אֹכֵ֑ל וְה֥וּא פִסֵּ֖חַ שְׁתֵּ֥י רַגְלָֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and Mephibosheth \[was\].dwelling in Jerusalem (dm) on the.table of the.king continually he \[was\].eating and he \[was\].lame the.two feet his

*JPS 1917:* But Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he did eat continually at the king's table; and he was lame on both his feet.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4648.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4648/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).