Tishbite
TISHBITE
From Tishbe in the tribe of Naphtali, where Elijah was born, 1Ki 17:1 . It is mentioned in one of the apocryphal books.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Tishbite
(Heb. Tishbi’, , apparently a gentile adj.; Sept. ; Vulg. Thesbites), the constant designation of the prophet Elijah (1Ki 17:1; 1Ki 21:17; 1Ki 21:28; 2Ki 1:3; 2Ki 1:8; 2Ki 9:36). The following explanations have been given of this obscure epithet:
1. The name naturally points to a place called Tish-bah, Tishbeh, Tishbi, or rather perhaps Tesheb, as the residence of the prophet. Indeed, the word , which follows it in. 1Ki 17:1, and which in the received Hebrew text is so pointed as to mean from fie residents, may, without violence or grammatical impropriety, be pointed to read from Tishbi. This latter reading appears to have been followed by the Sept. (Vat. ), Josephus (Ant. 8:13, 2, ), and the Targ. (, from out of Toshab ); and it has the support of Ewald (Gesch. 3, 468, note). It is also supported by the fact, which seems to have escaped notice, that the word does not in this passage contain the which is present in each one of the places where is used as a mere appellative noun. Had the been present in 1Ki 17:1, the interpretation from Tishbi could never have been proposed.
Assuming, however, that a town is alluded to as Elijah’s native place, it is not necessary to infer that it was itself in Gilead, as Epiphanius, Adrichomius, Castell, and others have imagined; for the word , which in the A. V. is rendered by the general term inhabitant, has really the special force of resident or even stranger. This and the fact that a place with a similar name is not elsewhere mentioned have induced the commentators, geographers, and lexicographers, with few exceptions, to adopt the name Tishbite as referring to the place THISBE () in Naphtali, which is found in the Sept. text of Tobit 1, 2. the difficulty in the way of this is the great uncertainty in which the text of that passage is involved-an uncertainty quite sufficient to destroy any dependence upon it as a topographical record, although it bears the traces of having originally been extremely minute. Bunsen (Bibelwerk, note to 1Ki 17:1) suggests in support of the reading the Tishbite from Tishbi of Gilead (which, however, he does not adopt in his text) that the place may have been purposely so described, in order to distinguish it from the town of the same name in Galilee.
2. But has not always been read as a proper name, referring to a place. Like , though exactly in reverse, it has been pointed so as to make it mean the stranger. This is done by Michaelis in the text of his interesting Bibel fr Ungelehrten Der Fremdling Elia, einer von de Fremden, die in Gilead wohnhaft waren; and it throws a new and impressive air around the prophet, who was so emphatically the champion of the God of Israel. But this suggestion does not appear to have been adopted by any other interpreter, ancient or modern.
The numerical value of the letters is 712, on which account, and also doubtless with a view to its correspondence with his own name, Elias Levita entitled his work, in. which 712 words are explained, Sepher Tishbi (Bartolocci, 1, 140 b). SEE ELIJAH.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Tishbite
Elijah the prophet was thus named (1 Kings 17:1; 21:17, 28, etc.). In 1 Kings 17:1 the word rendered “inhabitants” is in the original the same as that rendered “Tishbite,” hence that verse may be read as in the LXX., “Elijah the Tishbite of Tishbi in Gilead.” Some interpret this word as meaning “stranger,” and read the verse, “Elijah the stranger from among the strangers in Gilead.” This designation is probably given to the prophet as denoting that his birthplace was Tishbi, a place in Upper Galilee (mentioned in the apocryphal book of Tobit), from which for some reason he migrated into Gilead. Josephus, the Jewish historian (Ant. 8:13, 2), however, supposes that Tishbi was some place in the land of Gilead. It has been identified by some with el-Ishtib, a some place 22 miles due south of the Sea of Galilee, among the mountains of Gilead.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Tishbite
Derived from Thisbe in upper Galilee to the S. of Kedesh in Naphtali; see the apocryphal Tob 1:2. Elijah was born here, but settled in Gilead as a stranger. See 1Ki 17:1, “who was of the settlers (mitoshabey) of Gilead.” Kurtz less probably (see Keil on 1Ki 17:1) supposes Tishbite to be the Tisieh mentioned by Robinson (Pal. iii. 153) in Gilead S. of Bostra. Paine identifies Tishbite with Listib overhung by the monastery Mar Ilyas (Elijah).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Tishbite
TISHBITE.Elijah is repeatedly designated the Tishbite (1Ki 17:1; 1Ki 21:17; 1Ki 21:28 etc.)i.e. native of Tishbeh (? Thisbe) in Gilead.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Tishbite
tishbt. See ELIJAH; Expostory Times, XII, 383.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Tishbite
Tishbite, the Gentile name of Elijah’Elijah the Tishbite’ (1Ki 17:1-2; 1Ki 21:17)derived from a town called Tishbi in the tribe of Naphtali, the name of which occurs only in the apocryphal book of Tob 1:2.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Tishbite
[Tish’bite]
Designation of Elisha. 1Ki 17:1; 1Ki 21:17; 1Ki 21:28; 2Ki 1:3; 2Ki 1:8; 2Ki 9:36. The LXX in 1Ki 17 has “the Thesbite of Thesb of Galaad.” Josephus has “of Thesbon, a country in Gilead,” probably copied from the LXX. No such place is known. Some suppose the word to signify ‘the stranger.’