Ebez

Ebez ( meaning "tin", or "white")The proposed meanings "tin" and "white" appear in Easton's Bible Dictionary, "Abez." 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.The form "Abez" is found in the King James Version; "Ebez" in the Revised Version. 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."Probably the ruin el-Beida, 'white,' at the north limit of the Plain of Esdraelon." W. Robertson Smith (1899), "Abez." In Cheyne and Black, eds., Encyclopaedia Biblica. According to the 1915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), the location is not known.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." It is mentioned only in , where various manuscripts of the Septuagint render it as Rebes (), Aeme, or Aemis.W. Robertson Smith (1899), "Abez." In Cheyne and Black, eds., Encyclopaedia Biblica. It is mentioned on the façade of the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu as Apijaa.

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