תִּשְׁבִּיTishbîy

תִּשְׁבֶּה: proper name [of a location]: (from above √); — read probably מִתִּשְׁבֵּה גִלְעָד (or תִּשְׁבֵּי) (1 Kings 17:1)

Pronunciation: tish-bee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8664

Meanings

תִּשְׁבִּי: ׳ אֵלִיָּהוּ הַתּ (1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 21:17; 1 Kings 21:28; 2 Kings 1:3; 2 Kings 1:8)

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”
  • 1 Kings 21:17 But the Lord said to Elijah,
  • 1 Kings 21:28 Then another message from the Lord came to Elijah:
  • 2 Kings 1:3 But the angel of the Lord told Elijah, who was from Tishbe, “Go and confront the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is there no God in Israel? Why are you going to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether the king will recover?
  • 2 Kings 1:8 They replied, “He was a hairy man, and he wore a leather belt around his waist.” “Elijah from Tishbe!” the king exclaimed.
  • 2 Kings 9:36 When they returned and told Jehu, he stated, “This fulfills the message from the Lord, which he spoke through his servant Elijah from Tishbe: ‘At the plot of land in Jezreel, dogs will eat Jezebel’s body.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).