Thebez

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Thebez
     brightness, a place some 11 miles north-east of Shechem, on the
     road to Scythopolis, the modern Tabas. Abimelech led his army
     against this place, because of its participation in the
     conspiracy of the men of Shechem; but as he drew near to the
     strong tower to which its inhabitants had fled for safety, and


     was about to set fire to it, a woman cast a fragment of
     millstone at him, and "all to brake his skull" i.e., "altogether
     brake," etc. His armourbearer thereupon "thrust him through, and
     he died" (Judg. 9:50-55).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Thebez, muddy; eggs; fine linen or silk