Lexicon Tishbiy: Tishbite Original Word: תִּשְׁבִּיPart of Speech: proper name, of a location; Adjective, of a people Transliteration: Tishbiy Phonetic Spelling: (tish-bee') Short Definition: Tishbite Brown-Driver-Briggs   [ תִּשְׁבֶּה]   proper name, of a location (from above √ ); — read probably  מִתִּשְׁבֵּה גִלְעָד (or  תִּשְׁבֵּי)  1 Kings 17:1 (for  ᵑ0 מִתּשָׁבֵיּ)  ᵐ5.  ἐκ θεσβῶν ( ᵐ5L 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 
 
 
 
  Strong's Tishbite  Patrial from an unused name meaning recourse; a Tishbite or inhabitant of Tishbeh (in Gilead) -- Tishbite.   |  
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