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title: תֵּבֵץ — Thebez · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֵּבֵץ (8405), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Thebez. BDB 1906: pr. loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֵּבֵץ

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«תֵּבֵץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Thebez** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 8405 · **BDB:** תֵּבֵץ

### Glosses

Thebez (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Thebez [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8405/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pr. loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8405/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. loc. near Shechem: Ju 9:50(×2) (תֵּבֵ֑ץ; also 8:18 Bu for תָּבוֹר q.v.), 2 S 11:21; mod. Ṭûbâs, 4 h. N. of Shechem RobBR iii. 305 GuérinSam. i. 357ff. BuhlG 204; Θηβης, Θαιβαις (in Ju), Θαμασ(ε)ι, 𝔊L Θαμεσσει (in S).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֵּבֵץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8405/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 9:50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.50/)

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וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל־תֵּבֵ֑ץ וַיִּ֥חַן בְּתֵבֵ֖ץ וַֽיִּלְכְּדָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went Abimelech to Thebez and he.encamped at Thebez and he captured.it

*JPS 1917:* Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

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[2 Samuel 11:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.11.21/)

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מִֽי־הִכָּ֞ה אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֣לֶךְ בֶּן־יְרֻבֶּ֗שֶׁת הֲלֽוֹא־אִשָּׁ֡ה הִשְׁלִ֣יכָה עָלָיו֩ פֶּ֨לַח רֶ֜כֶב מֵעַ֤ל הַֽחוֹמָה֙ וַיָּ֣מָת בְּתֵבֵ֔ץ לָ֥מָּה נִגַּשְׁתֶּ֖ם אֶל־הַֽחוֹמָ֑ה וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ גַּ֗ם עַבְדְּךָ֛ אוּרִיָּ֥ה הַחִתִּ֖י מֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* who? did.he.strike.down (et) Abimelech the.son of.Jerub-Besheth ? not a.woman did.she.throw on him a.mill-stone of.an.upper.mill-stone from on the wall and he.died in Thebez why? did.you.draw.near to the wall and you.will.say also servant your Uriah the Hittite he.has.died

*JPS 1917:* who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say: Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'

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