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# תֵּבֵץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8405

**Thebez** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Thebez [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8405/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֵּבֵץ: pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8405/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. loc. near Shechem: Ju 9:50(×2) (תֵּבֵ֑ץ; also 8:18 Bu for תָּבוֹר q.v.), 2 S 11:21; mod. Ṭûbâs, 4 h. N. of Shechem RobBR iii. 305 GuérinSam. i. 357ff. BuhlG 204; Θηβης, Θαιβαις (in Ju), Θαμασ(ε)ι, 𝔊L Θαμεσσει (in S).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Thebez (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 9:50](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.50/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.50/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל־תֵּבֵ֑ץ וַיִּ֥חַן בְּתֵבֵ֖ץ וַֽיִּלְכְּדָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went Abimelech to Thebez and he.encamped at Thebez and he captured.it

*JPS 1917:* Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

[2 Samuel 11:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.21/#tree)

מִֽי־הִכָּ֞ה אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֣לֶךְ בֶּן־יְרֻבֶּ֗שֶׁת הֲלֽוֹא־אִשָּׁ֡ה הִשְׁלִ֣יכָה עָלָיו֩ פֶּ֨לַח רֶ֜כֶב מֵעַ֤ל הַֽחוֹמָה֙ וַיָּ֣מָת בְּתֵבֵ֔ץ לָ֥מָּה נִגַּשְׁתֶּ֖ם אֶל־הַֽחוֹמָ֑ה וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ גַּ֗ם עַבְדְּךָ֛ אוּרִיָּ֥ה הַחִתִּ֖י מֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* who? did.he.strike.down (et) Abimelech the.son of.Jerub-Besheth ? not a.woman did.she.throw on him a.mill-stone of.an.upper.mill-stone from on the wall and he.died in Thebez why? did.you.draw.near to the wall and you.will.say also servant your Uriah the Hittite he.has.died

*JPS 1917:* who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say: Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8405.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8405/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).