Editing Ebez

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'''Ebez''' ({{langx|he|אֶבֶץ}} meaning "tin", or "white")<ref>The proposed meanings "tin" and "white" appear in ''Easton's Bible Dictionary,'' "Abez."</ref> also rendered '''Abez''', was a town in the allotment of the [[tribe of Issachar]], at the north of the [[Jezreel Valley]], or plain of [[Esdraelon]].<ref>The form "Abez" is found in the [[King James Version]]; "Ebez" in the [[Revised Version]].</ref> F. R. and C. R. Conder (1879), believed that it was probably the ruins of [[el-Beida]], but William Robertson Smith (1899) expressed doubt about this identification.<ref>"Probably the ruin ''el-Beida,'' 'white,' at the north limit of the Plain of Esdraelon." {{cite book|title=A handbook to the Bible, by F.R. and C.R. Conder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-6ECAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA401|year=1879|page=401|last1 = Conder|first1 = Francis Roubiliac}}</ref><ref>W. Robertson Smith (1899), "Abez." In Cheyne and Black, eds., ''Encyclopaedia Biblica''.</ref> According to the 1915 ''International Standard Bible Encyclopedia'' (1915), the location is not known.<ref>James Orr, ed. ''International Standard Bible Encyclopedia'' (1915), entry for "Ebez." The full entry reads: "Ebez, e'-bez ('ebhets, meaning unknown; Rhebes; the King James Version Abez): One of the 16 cities in Issachar (Jos 19:20). The name seems to be cognate to that of the judge Ibzan (Jg 12:8-10). All else concerning it is conjecture."</ref> It is mentioned only in {{bibleverse||Joshua|19:20|ESV}}, where various manuscripts of the Septuagint render it as ''Rebes'' ({{langx|grc|Ῥεβὲς}}), ''Aeme'', or ''Aemis''.<ref>W. Robertson Smith (1899), "Abez." In Cheyne and Black, eds., ''Encyclopaedia Biblica''.</ref> It is mentioned on the façade of the [[Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III]] at [[Medinet Habu (location)|Medinet Habu]] as '''Apijaa'''.<ref name = Gauthier67>{{cite book |last1=Gauthier |first1=Henri |title=Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 1 |date=1925 |page=67 |url=https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1925_1}}</ref><ref name = Budge956>{{cite book |last1=Wallis Budge |first1=E. A. |title=An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II |date=1920 |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/egyptianhierogly02budguoft/page/956 956] |url=https://archive.org/details/egyptianhierogly02budguoft}}</ref><ref name = Recueil>{{cite book |author1=Gaston Maspero |authorlink1=Gaston Maspero |editor1-last=Daressy |editor1-first=Georges |editor1-link=Georges Daressy |title=Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes: pour servir de bullletin à la Mission Française du Caire Vol. XX |page=117 |url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/rectrav1898/0130/image |accessdate=10 April 2020 |language=French}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Jezreel Valley]]


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