Tishbite

Tish´bite, 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.

From Tishbe in the tribe of Naphtali, where Elijah was born, 1Ki 17:1 . It is mentioned in one of the apocryphal books.\par

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).

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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 Thesbæ 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.’

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.

tish´bı̄t. See ELIJAH; Expostory Times, XII, 383.