A son of King Saul, and his successor in the throne. He was acknowledged king by a part of the tribes of Israel, A. Ishbosheth is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “a man of shame.” This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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a man of shame According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
אִישׁ־בֹ֫שֶׁת
H0378
Transliteration
ʼÎysh-Bôsheth
Pronunciation
eesh-bo'-sheth
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
22
Glosses
Ishbosheth, Ish-bosheth.
Lexicon definition
Ish-Bosheth, a son of King Saul
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.
a son of King Saul, and his successor in the throne. He was acknowledged king by a part of the tribes of Israel, A. M. 2949, while David reigned at Hebron, over the tribe of Judah, 2 Sam. ii, 8, 9, &c; iii. He reigned two years in peace, but the remaining eight years were spent in perpetual wars between his troops and those of David, till in the end he perished, and with him ended the royal dignity of the house of Saul.