Tibhath

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

TIBHATH . A city of Hadarezer, king of Zobah (  1 Chronicles 18:8 ). In   2 Samuel 8:8 the name of the town is Betah , but the original reading was probably Tebah , as in the Syriac version, and as a tribal name in   Genesis 22:24 . The site of Tibhath is unknown, but it was possibly on the eastern slopes of Anti-Lebanon.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tib'hath. (Extension). A city of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,  1 Chronicles 18:8, which in  2 Samuel 8:8, is called, Betah . Its exact position is unknown.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City of Hadadezer, king of Zobah.  1 Chronicles 18:8 . It is intimated in the margin of  2 Samuel 8:8 that BETAH may refer to Tibhath, but Betah has not been identified.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

City of Hadadezer, king of Zobah ( 1 Chronicles 18:8). Betah in  2 Samuel 8:8. Probably on the eastern slopes of the Antilibanus.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 18:8 2 Samuel 8:8

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

tib´hath ( טבחת , tibhḥath  ; Μεταβηχάς , Metabēchás , Codex Alexandrinus Ματεβέθ , Matebéth  ; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Thebath  ; Peshitta Ṭebhaḥ ): A city of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, from which David took much of the brass used later by Solomon in the construction of the temple-furnishings (  1 Chronicles 18:8 ). In  2 Samuel 8:8 we must for the beṭaḥ of the Massoretic Text read with the Syriac Ṭebhaḥ . It may be the same as the Tubihi of the Tell el-Amarna Letters  ; the Dibhu of the Karnak lists; and the Tubihi mentioned with Kadesh on the Orontes in the "Travels of an Egyptian" in the reign of Rameses II. The site is unknown, but it must have been on the eastern slopes of Anti-Lebanon, between which and the Euphrates we must locate Hadadezer's kingdom of Zobah. "Tebah" occurs also as an Aramaic personal or tribal name in  Genesis 22:24 .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Tibchath', טַבְחִת , Slaughter or [Furst] Extension ; Sept. [repeating the preposition],. Ματαβέθ ; Vulg. Thebath ) , a city of Hadadezer, king of Zobah ( 1 Chronicles 18:8), which in  2 Samuel 8:8 is called BETAH, probably by an accidental transposition: of the first two letters. If Aram- Zobah be the country between the Euphrates and Coele-Syria, we must look for Tibhath on the eastern skirts of the Antilibanus, or of its continuation, the Jebel Shahshabu and the Jebel Rieha. But Furst ( Heb. Lex. s.v.) thinks that "the city Thcebata, in the north-west of Mesopotamia (Pliny, Hist. Nat. 6:30), or the place Θεβηθά of Arrian (in Steph. Byz.), which lay, according to the Peutinger Tables (11, e), south of Nisibis, may refer to this name."