Tishbite

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tishbite
     Elijah the prophet was thus named (1 Kings 17:1; 21:17, 28,
     etc.). In 1 Kings 17:1 the word rendered "inhabitants" is in the
     original the same as that rendered "Tishbite," hence that verse
     may be read as in the LXX., "Elijah the Tishbite of Tishbi in
     Gilead." Some interpret this word as meaning "stranger," and


     read the verse, "Elijah the stranger from among the strangers in
     Gilead." This designation is probably given to the prophet as
     denoting that his birthplace was Tishbi, a place in Upper
     Galilee (mentioned in the apocryphal book of Tobit), from which
     for some reason he migrated into Gilead. Josephus, the Jewish
     historian (Ant. 8:13, 2), however, supposes that Tishbi was some
     place in the land of Gilead. It has been identified by some with
     el-Ishtib, a some place 22 miles due south of the Sea of
     Galilee, among the mountains of Gilead.
     

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

  Tishbite, that makes captive