respiration; conversion; taking captive
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
ISHBI-BENOB.One of the four Philistines of the giant stock who were slain by the mighty men of David (2Sa_21:15-17).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Son of Rapha. A Philistine giant, who attacked David and was slain by Abishai (2Sa_21:16-17).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
ish-bı̄-bē?nob (ישׁבּי בנב, yishbı̄ bhenōbh): One of the four ?born to the giant in Gath? who were slain by David and his men (2Sa_21:15-22). Ishbi-benob was slain by Abishai, and David's life saved by the act (2Sa_21:16, 2Sa_21:17).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ishbi-benob
(Heb. Yishbi'-Beznob', יַשְׁבַּי בְנבmy seat is at Nob, as in the margin, for which the text has , יַשְׁבּוֹ בְנב, Yishbo'-Benob', his seat is at Nob; Sept. Ι᾿εσβὶ ἀπὸ Νώβ, Vulg. Jeshi-benob), one of the Rephaim, a gigantic warrior who bore a spear of 300 shekels' weight, and came near slaying David in a personal rencounter, but was slain by Abishai (2Sa_21:16). B.C. cir. 1018. SEE GIANT.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.