Bible Names

Thebez: meaning of the name

Thebez means “muddy; eggs; fine linen or silk.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Thebez in Hebrew and Greek

תֵּבֵץ H8405

Têbêts (tay-bates') — Tebets, a place in Palestine

from the same as H948 (בּוּץ); whiteness;

Places named Thebez

Thebez in Scripture

“Thebez” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Judges 9:50

    Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

  • 2 Samuel 11:21

    Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.