Tishbite. [Tish'bite]
Designation of Elisha. 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 1:21, 1 Kings 1:21; 2 Kings 1:1, 2 Kings 1:1; 2 Kings 1:9. The LXX in 1 Kings 1:17 has "the Thesbite of Thesbæ of Galaad." Josephus has "of Thesbon, a country in Gilead," probably copied from the LXX. No such place is known. Some suppose the word to signify 'the stranger.'