HebrewH8664Noun

תִּשְׁבִּי

tish.bi

6Occurrences
H8664Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Tishbite or inhabitant of Tishbeh (in Gilead)

patrial from an unused name meaning recourse;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Group of tish.beh (*תִּשְׁבֶּה *"Tishbe" H8453B) § Tishbite = "captivity" an inhabitant of Tishbe or Tishbi or Tesheb

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

תִּשְׁבִּי appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Kings
3
2 Kings
3

Key Passages

1 Kings 17:1BSB

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!”

1 Kings 21:17BSB

Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

1 Kings 21:28BSB

Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:

2 Kings 1:3BSB

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?’

2 Kings 1:8BSB

“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.