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# תִּשְׁבִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8664

**Tishbite** — used 6 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

Tishbite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8664/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּשְׁבִּי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8664/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent., אֵלִיָּהוּ הַתּ׳ 1 K 17:1; 21:17, 28; 2 K 1:3, 8; 9:36;—ὁ Θεσβ(ε)ίτης.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tishbite (6).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 21:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.17/#tree)

וַיְהִי֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־אֵלִיָּ֥הוּ הַתִּשְׁבִּ֖י לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Elijah the Tishbite (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:

[1 Kings 21:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.28/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ דְּבַר־יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־אֵלִיָּ֥הוּ הַתִּשְׁבִּ֖י לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Elijah the Tishbite (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8664/): 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).