Strong's #8664: Tishbiy (pronounced tish-bee')

patrial from an unused name meaning recourse; a Tishbite or inhabitant of Tishbeh (in Gilead):--Tishbite.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tishbı̂y

Tishbite = "captivity"

1) the home of Elijah

1a) site unknown but maybe the town of Tishbe

2) an inhabitant of Tishbe or Tishbi or Tesheb

2a) site unknown and name uncertain

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

1 Kings 17:1: "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab,"
1 Kings 21:17: "came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,"
1 Kings 21:28: "came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,"
2 Kings 1:3: "said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers"
2 Kings 1:8: "with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite."
2 Kings 9:36: "by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs"