Bible dictionaries

Tabbath

What Bible dictionaries say about “Tabbath”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Tabbath - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Famous, a town in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg. 7:22), to the south of Bethshean, near the Jordan.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

tab'-ath (Tabbath; Codex Vaticanus Tabath; Gabath): A place named after Abel-meholah in the account of the Midianite flight before Gideon (Jud 7:23). It must therefore have been a place in the Jordan valley to the East of Beth-shan. No trace of the name has yet been recovered.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(celebrated), a place mentioned only in (Judges 7:25) in describing the flight of the Midianite host after Gideons night attack; (probably the present Tubukhat-Fahil , a very striking natural bank 600 feet high, with a long horizontal top, embanked against the western face of the mountains east of the Jordan, and descending with a steep front to the river. --Robinson, Bib. Res.)

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith