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Strong's #8664 - תִּשְׁבֵּי

Transliteration

Tishbîy

Phonetics

tish-bee'

Origin

patrial from an unused name meaning recourse

Parts of Speech

N/A

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Tishbite = “captivity”

1) the home of Elijah

1a) site unknown but maybe the town of Tishbe

2) an inhabitant of Tishbe or Tishbi or Tesheb

2a) site unknown and name uncertain

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (6)

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 3

HCS (0)

HCS (6)

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 3

BSB (6)

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 3

ESV (6)

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 3

WEB (6)

1 Kings 3

2 Kings 3

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[תִּשְׁבֶּה] proper name, of a location (from above √ ); — read probably מִתִּשְׁבֵּה גִלְעָד (or תִּשְׁבֵּי) 1 Kings 17:1 (for ᵑ0מִתּשָׁבֵיּ) ᵐ5. ἐκ θεσβῶν (ᵐ5^L Θεσσεβῶν) τῆς Γαλααδ, so Joshua; Ew Th We Kmp Benz Kit Bur and others; home of Elijah; see Kasteren^{ZPV xiii (1890) 207 ff.} compare modern Istib, in mountains of Ajhûn, so Buhl^{G 257}.

תִּשְׁבִּי adjective, of a people, ׳אֵלִיָּהוּ הַתּ 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 21:17,28; 2 Kings 1:3,8; 2 Kings 9:36; — ὀ Θεσβ(ε)ίτης

List of Word Forms

הַתִּשְׁבִּ֔י הַתִּשְׁבִּ֖י הַתִּשְׁבִּ֜י התשבי hat·tiš·bî hattišbî hattishBi