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Tishbe, sometimes transliterated as Thisbe, is a town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's First Book of Kings, 1 Kings 17:1, as the residence and possibly even birthplace of the prophet Elijah, known as the Tishbite (see that page for discussion of the term).
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not a place (social class): less than 10% confidenceanother name for Thisbe (ancient): less than 10% confidenceanother name for Jabesh-gilead (ancient): less than 10% confidence. It may be:Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Tishbe (place)Baly, Atlas of the Biblical World (1971): TishbeEerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000): TishbeExpositor’s Bible Commentary (1984): 2Kgs 17:1 noteThis chart indicates how confidence in the identifications is changing over time. Each dot (conneceted by a dotted line) reflects the confidence of an identification over the preceding ten years (e.g., the 2009 dot reflects scholarship from 2000 to 2009), and the corresponding solid line reflects a best-fit line for the identification. Confidences ...
This page attempts to identify all the possible locations where this biblical place could be. The confidence levels add up to less than 100%, indicating that the modern location is uncertain. It's best to think about the confidences in relative rather than absolute terms. Often they reflect different schools of thought, each confident in their iden...
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The apocryphal Book of Tobit ( 1:2) refers to a place called Thisbe, located S of Kedesh in Naphtali, and it has been suggested that the descriptive adjective “Tishbite” was derived from it. If this were true, then Elijah was born there, and later settled in Gilead.
The Tishbite. . the well-known designation of Elijah. ( 1 Kings 17:1; 21:17,28; 2 Kings 1:3,8; 9:36) The name naturally points to a place called Tishbeh, Tishbi, or rather perhaps Tesheb, as the residence of the prophet. Assuming that a town is alluded to as Elijah's native place, it is not necessary to infer that it was itself in Gilead, as ...
Tishbite is a demonym predicated of the Prophet Elijah in the Hebrew Bible. [1] Scholars dispute the precise denotation of the word. [2] The words of 1 Kings 17:1 are usually rendered as "Elijah the Tishbite of Tishbe in Gilead ".
Tish´bit. An adjective applied six times in the Hebrew Bible to the prophet Elijah ( 1Kgs 17:1; 1Kgs 21:17; 1Kgs 21:28; 2Kgs 1:3; 2Kgs 1:8; 2Kgs 9:36 ).
He is also called “the Tishbite,” which indicates his association with a place named Tishbe, whether in Napthali or E of the Jordan. The Heb. text of 1 Kings 17:1 adds that he was “of the הַתִּשְׁבִּ֜י of Gilead”; MT gives מִתֹּשָׁבֵ֣י, “of the settlers, sojourners” (cf., less accurately, KJV, “inhabitants”).
