Ashbea

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.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

Morrish Bible Dictionary

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

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("I adjure".)  1 Chronicles 4:21.

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."

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.