Mi-fib´oh-sheth
An intentionally distorted form of the original name Mippi-baal (Heb., “out of the mouth of Baal”). Baal, which means “lord,” was used as a simple epithet for God, but because the epithet was also used for a major Canaanite deity, later scribes often replaced this element in proper names with the word bosheth, “shame.” Two men in the Bible bear this name. 1 A son of Saul whom David handed over to the Gibeonites for execution (
