Ashbea

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("I adjure".) 1 Chronicles 4:21.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

ASHBEA occurs in an obscure passage ( 1 Chronicles 4:21 ‘house of A.’) where it is uncertain whether it is the name of a place or of a man.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A family apparently descended from Shelah who 'wrought fine linen.' 1 Chronicles 4:21 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ash'bea. (I adjure). A proper name, but whether of a person or place is uncertain. 1 Chronicles 4:21.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ash´bē̇ -a , ash -bē´a ( אשׁבּע , 'ashbēa‛ ): "The house of Ashbea," a family of linen-workers mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:21 . We might render bēth 'ashbēa‛ as their dwelling-place; nothing is known of such a place nor is this house of weavers referred to in any other place.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. As'bei, אִשְׁבֵּעִ, adjuration, otherwise swelling: Sept. Ε᾿σοβά ), the head of a family mentioned as working in fine linen, a branch of the descendants of Shelah, the son of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:21). B.C. prob. cir. 1017. The clause in which the word occurs is obscure (see Bertheau, Comment. in loc.). Houbigant and Bootruyd understand a place to be meant by the expression Beth-ashbea. The Targum of R. Joseph (ed. Wilkins) paraphrases it " the house of Eshba."