תִּשְׁבִּי
tish.bi
“Tishbite”
Definition
a Tishbite or inhabitant of Tishbeh (in Gilead)
patrial from an unused name meaning recourse;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun
N:N--LG
N:N--LG
Occurrences
תִּשְׁבִּי appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.”“It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.