mefivoshet · Mephibosheth

What it means

mefivoshet (מְפִיבֹשֶׁת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Mephibosheth”.

The name of two men of the house of Saul: the son of Jonathan, lame in both feet, to whom David showed loyal love (2 Samuel 4:4; 9), and a son of Saul and Rizpah (2 Samuel 21:8). In 1 Chronicles 8:34 the son of Jonathan is called Merib-baal.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel 4:4

  Now Jonathan son of Saul had a son injured in the feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled; and it happened, as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 9:6

  Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and bowed down. David said, “Mephibosheth.” He said, “Here is your servant.”

• 2 Samuel 9:10

  And you shall work the ground for him, you and your sons and your servants, and you shall bring in the produce, and it will be bread for your lord’s son to eat; but Mephibosheth your lord’s son will eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

• 2 Samuel 9:11

  Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at my table, like one of the sons of the king.

• 2 Samuel 9:12

  Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 9:13

  So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for at the table of the king he always ate; and he was lame in both his feet.

• 2 Samuel 16:1

  David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

• 2 Samuel 16:4

  The king said to Ziba, “Look, yours is all that belonged to Mephibosheth.” Ziba said, “I bow down; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”

• 2 Samuel 19:24

  Mephibosheth, son of Saul, came down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache, and his clothes he had not washed from the day the king went away until the day that he came in peace.

• 2 Samuel 19:25

  When he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”

• 2 Samuel 19:30

  Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him take even all of it, since my lord the king has come in peace to his house.”

• 2 Samuel 21:7

  But the king spared Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the oath of YHWH that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

• 2 Samuel 21:8

  The king took the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite,

And 4 more times.