Tishbite

But be it so that he might be called Tishbite from the city Toshab, as the Targum and other Rabbins would have it (which yet is very farfetched), that very thing might evince that it is not he himself that is meant by

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

That great prophet that lived in Ahab's days is called the Tishbite, throughout the whole story of him, and not the prophet.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

He is supposed to be called the Tishbite from Tisbeh,

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Mispeh was in this half-tribe, and Jephthah was one of its ornaments; so was Elijah, for in this tribe was Thisbe, whence he is called the Tishbite; and Jair was another.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

He is called a Tishbite from Thisbe, a town in that country.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

It had puzzled and frightened her to know that something was eating Barby's heart out, even in a figurative way, and now the word "Tishbite" filled her with a vague sense of helplessness and impending disaster.

Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

The commentators and lexicographers, with few exceptions, adopt the name "Tishbite" as referring to the place Thisbe in Naphtali which is found in the Septuagint text of Tobit 1: 2.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

One thinks of Elisha the Tishbite, of Micaiah, and even of our Lord who refused the kingdoms of this world.

Ichabod–or Moral Turpitude « Unknowing 2010

The prophet Elijah the Tishbite, was from this area, not far north of Galaad.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

I would I had asked him touching the loss of my banner; for not the blessed Tishbite, the founder of his order, could seem more wildly rapt out of himself, or speak with a tongue more resembling that of a prophet. —

The Talisman 2008