ARBATHITE (2Sa_23:31).A native of Beth-arabah, a town in the wilderness of Judah (Jos_15:6; Jos_15:51; Jos_18:22).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(2Sa_23:31) dweller in the Aarbah or Ghor. (See ARABAH.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
ar?bath-ı̄t (הערבתי, hā-‛arbhāthı̄): Perhaps ?a native of the Arabah.? Klostermann suggests ?a native of Beth-arabah.? The Arbathite is Abi-albon (2Sa_23:31), also named Abiel (1Ch_11:32), one of David's heroes.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Arbathite
(Heb. Arbathi', עִרְבָתִי, Sept. Α᾿ραβωθίτης, but in Chronicles Σαραβεθθεί v. r. Γαραβαιθί), an epithet of Abiel, one of David's warriors (2Sa_23:31; 1Ch_11:32), probably as being an inhabitant of ARABAH SEE ARABAH (Jos_15:61; Joshua 23:22).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.