Strong's H8664 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: תִּשְׁבִּי (Tishbîy)

Pronunciation: tish-bee'

Morphology: n-pr

Part of Speech: n pr loc, adj gent

Name Meaning: Tishbite = "captivity"

Derivation: patrial from an unused name meaning recourse;

Definition: a Tishbite or inhabitant of Tishbeh (in Gilead)

KJV Renderings: Tishbite.

Senses

1. the home of Elijah
1. site unknown but maybe the town of Tishbe
2. an inhabitant of Tishbe or Tishbi or Tesheb
1. site unknown and name uncertain

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.