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Tabbath

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Easton's 1897Smith's 1863ISBE 19153 verse references

Easton's 1897

Famous, a town in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg. 7:22), to the south of Bethshean, near the Jordan.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain

Smith's 1863

(celebrated), a place mentioned only in (Judges 7:25) in describing the flight of the Midianite host after Gideon’s night attack; (probably the present Tubukhat-Fahil , a very striking natural bank 600 feet high, with a long horizontal top, embanked against the western face of the mountains east of the Jordan, and descending with a steep front to the river. --Robinson, Bib. Res.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863) · public domain

ISBE 1915

tab'-ath (Tabbath; Codex Vaticanus Tabath; Gabath): A place named after Abel-meholah in the account of the Midianite flight before Gideon (Jud 7:23). It must therefore have been a place in the Jordan valley to the East of Beth-shan. No trace of the name has yet been recovered.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

In Scripture

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