Lexicon Tabitha: "gazelle," Tabitha (also called Dorcas), a Christian woman Original Word: Ταβηθά, ἡPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Tabitha Phonetic Spelling: (tab-ee-thah') Short Definition: Tabitha, antelope Definition: antelope; Tabitha, a Christian woman at Joppa. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Aramaic origin Definition"gazelle," Tabitha (also called Dorcas, see NG1393), a Christian woman NASB TranslationTabitha (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5000: ΤαβιθάΤαβιθά ( WH Ταβειθα, see their Appendix, p. 155, and under the word εἰ, ἰ; the better accent seems to be Ταβιθά (see Kautzsch, as below)), ἡ ( טְבִיתָא, a Chaldean name in the 'emphatic state' ( Kautzsch, Gram. d. Biblical-Aram. as above with, p. 11, writes it טַבְיְתָא, stative emphatic of טַבְיָא), Hebrew צְבִי, i. e. δορκάς, which see), Tabitha, a Christian woman of Joppa, noted for her works of benevolence: Acts 9:36, 40. (Cf. B. D., under the word .)
Strong's Tabitha. Of Chaldee origin (compare tsbiyah); the gazelle; Tabitha (i.e. Tabjetha), a Christian female -- Tabitha. see HEBREW tsbiyah |
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