me.riv ba.al is used as the personal name of Jonathan’s son and Micah’s father.

The supplied verses use the term as a proper personal name in genealogical statements: Jonathan is named as this person’s father, and Micah as his son.

1. Personal name in a genealogy · dominant

   In 1 Chronicles 8:34, the form is tagged Noun · Proper and occurs twice in the statement that Jonathan’s son is named and that the same person became Micah’s father. In 1 Chronicles 9:40, the same proper-name use identifies Jonathan’s son and Micah’s father; the APB renders both clauses with "Merib-baal."

   1 Chronicles 8:341 Chronicles 9:40

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across 1 Chronicles 8:34 and 1 Chronicles 9:40, the APB presents the name as "Merib-baal" in both the son-of-Jonathan and father-of-Micah clauses. The verse is read as a whole, but its repeated naming matches the proper-noun morphology.