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Tabbath
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Tabbath: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
a town next to Abel-Meholah, about 15 km SSE of Beth-Shan
good; goodness
good; goodness
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Tabbath (32° 21´, 35° 32´)
Hebrew
Strongs #02888: tbj Tabbath
Tabbath = "celebrated"1) site near which Gideon's pursuit of the Midianites stopped; site
unknown
2888 Tabbath tab-bath'
of uncertain derivation; Tabbath, a place East of theJordan:-Tabbath.
Tabbath [EBD]
famous, a town in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg. 7:22), to the south of Bethshean, near the Jordan.
Tabbath [NAVE]
TABBATH, a place of uncertain location, Judg. 7:22.TABBATH [SMITH]
(celebrated), a place mentioned only in (Judges 7:25) in describing the flight of the Midianite host after Gideon?s night attack; (probably the present Tubukhat-Fahil , a very striking natural bank 600 feet high, with a long horizontal top, embanked against the western face of the mountains east of the Jordan, and descending with a steep front to the river. --Robinson, Bib. Res.)TABBATH [ISBE]
TABBATH - tab'-ath (Tabbath; Codex Vaticanus Tabath; Gabath): A place named after Abel-meholah in the account of the Midianite flight before Gideon (Jdg 7:23). It must therefore have been a place in the Jordan valley to the East of Beth-shan. No trace of the name has yet been recovered.