Tevets תֵּבֵץ
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| תֵּבֵץ | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | tevets |
| Strong's number | H8405 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | place name |
| Gloss | Thebez |
| Occurrences | 3 in 2 verses |
| Most frequent in | Judges (1) |
Tevets (Hebrew תֵּבֵץ, Strong's H8405) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Thebez”. It occurs 3 times.
Definition
§ Thebez = "conspicuous"
a town near Shechem
a town near Shechem
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | thebez (3) |
|---|---|
| BSB | thebez (2), against it (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Tevets, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- Judges 9:50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.
2 Samuel
- 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.Who was the one to strike 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 so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).