Search results
Tishbe. Tishbe, sometimes transliterated as Thisbe, [1] 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). It is placed by the biblical text in the historical region of Gilead, [2] now ...
- 4 Possible Identifications
- Sources
- Confidence Trends Over Time
- About
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...
- Tishbe, Tishbite
- settlement
People also ask
Is Tishbe a descriptor?
Why is Tishbe called Listib?
Where was Tishbe in the Bible?
Did Elijah come from a place called Tishbe?
Tishbite. TISHBITE tĭsh’ bīt ( תִּשְׁבִּ֜י; LXX Θεσβιτής ). An inhabitant of Tishbe, e.g., Elijah ( 1 Kings 17:1 ). A place of this name has never been identified, though some have thought that Listib, in eastern Gilead, was a likely identification. This was based on the similarity between its Arab. name, el-Istib, and ...
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 ...
Wikipedia Shqip është versioni shqip i Wikipedia-s, enciklopedisë së lirë. Ajo filloi më 12 tetor 2003 dhe tani përmban 84.261 artikuj . Për nga numri i artikujve, Wikipedia shqip e mban vendin e 75-të [1] sipas listës së Wikipedia-ve.
Search the Bible. 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 ). The LXX translators understood this to indicate that Elijah’s hometown was Tishbe, a city that has been identified with the site of Listib in the mountains of north Gilead.
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 ". As translated into English, Tishbite is the demonym for Tishbe: the demonym is predicated of the prophet to denote ...
