HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2888
טַבָּ֑ת
tab.bat — Tabbath
§ Tabbath = "celebrated" site near which Gideon's pursuit of the Midianites stopped
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Tabbath
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Famous, a town in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg. 7:22), to the south of Bethshean, near the Jordan.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.