tabbath Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
tabbath in Easton's Bible Dictionary
famous, a town in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg. 7:22), to the south of Bethshean, near the Jordan.
tabbath in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(celebrated), a place mentioned only in #Jud 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.)
tabbath in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
TAB'BATH (celebrated), a place noted in the account of the flight of the Midianite host. Jud 7:22. Grove suggests its identity with Tubukhat-Fahil, a remarkable mound or bank about 600 feet high, east of the Jordan, opposite Beisan (Beth-shean).
tabbath in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
S. of Abel Meholah. Conjectured (Smith's Bible Dictionary) to be Tubukhat Fahil, or terrace of Fahil, a natural bank 600 ft. high, with a long flat top, embanked over against the western face of the mountains E. of the Jordan (Judges 7:22). (See TABEEL.)