H8405 תֵּבֵץ (Têbêts) tay-bates'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Thebez

Biblical Persons & Places

Thebez Thebez

A location first mentioned at Jdg.9.50; only referred to as Thebez (תֵּבֵץ).

Strong's Definition

Tebets, a place in Palestine

Derivation: from the same as H948 (בּוּץ); whiteness;

KJV Usage: Thebez.

Outline of Biblical Usage

Thebez = "conspicuous"

1) a town near Shechem

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

תֵּבֵץ (te.vets) — Thebez.

§ Thebez = "conspicuous" a town near Shechem

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

תֵּבֵץ (H8405)

name

Names of Locations

Thebez = town; ◄ near Shechem; ► captured by Abimelech, son of Gideon

JDG 9:50 · JDG 9:50 · 2SA 11:21

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

תֵּבֵץ n.pr.loc. near Shechem base

Bible Occurrences (2)

9:50

11:21

Judges 9:50

Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.

2 Samuel 11:21

Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone... on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ [If he asks you this,] then you are to say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.