Strong H8405תֵּבֵץ
Thebez
- Transliteration
- têbêts
- Pronunciation
- tay-bates'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
From the same as H948; whiteness;
{Tebets} a place in Palestine: - Thebez.
{Tebets} a place in Palestine: - Thebez.
Meaning of the name
Thebez = "conspicuous"
Detailed definition
Thebez, a Canaanite city where Abimelech was fatally wounded by a millstone thrown by a woman (Judg. 9:50-54; 2 Sam. 11:21).
In the biblical story
Thebez
Canaanite city where Abimelech was killed
Thebez, a Canaanite city where Abimelech was fatally wounded by a millstone thrown by a woman (Judg. 9:50-54; 2 Sam. 11:21).
In the Bible
Strong H8405 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- thebez2
First verses
- Judges 9:50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
- 2 Samuel 11:21Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.