Têbêts — H8405

Definition

locative proper noun

Tebets, a place in Palestine

1. Thebez = "conspicuous"
2. a town near Shechem

Usually translated as

Thebez

Origin

from the same as H948; whiteness

• Same as Bûwts (H948)

Occurrences

Têbêts occurs 3 times in 2 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), 2 Samuel (1)

• Judges 9:50 — Then went Abimelech to Thebez (תֵּבֵ֑ץ), and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
• Judges 9:50 — Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez (בְּתֵבֵ֖ץ), and took it.
• 2 Samuel 11:21 — Who 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 (בְּתֵבֵ֔ץ)? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.