theft; robbery
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
GENUBATH.?Son of Hadad, the fugitive Edomite prince, by the sister of queen Tahpenes (1Ki_11:19-20).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Son of Hadad, an Edomite of the king's seed, by an Egyptian princess, sister of Tahpenes, queen of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt in David's reign (1Ki_11:14-20). Born and weaned by the queen in the palace, and reckoned in the household among Pharaoh's sons.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Gen'ubath. (theft, robbery). The son of Hadad, an Edomite of the royal family, by an Egyptian princess, the sister of Tahpenes, the queen of the Pharaoh, who governed Egypt in the latter part of the reign of David. 1Ki_11:20. Compare 1Ki_11:16. (B.C. 1015).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
gē̇-nū?bath (גּנבת, genubhath, ?theft?): Son of Hadad, the fugitive Edomite prince, born and brought up at the court of Egypt, whither Hadad had fled when David conquered Edom (1Ki_11:20). His mother was a sister of Tahpenes, queen of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt at that time, and who belonged to the notoriously weak and uninfluential 21st dynasty.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Genubath
[many Genu'bath] (Heb. Genubath', גְּנֻבֵתSept. Γανηβάθ), the son of Hadad, of the Edomitish royal family, by the sister of Tahepenes, the queen of Egypt (in the time of David), reared in Pharaoh's household (1Ki_11:20), to save him from the extermination by Joab (1Ki_11:16). He was born (B.C. cir. 1036) in the palace of Pharaoh, and weaned by the queen herself; safer which he became a member of the royal establishment, on the same footing as one of the sons of Pharaoh. Some connect the name with the Heb. root גָּנִב, to steal, and suppose an allusion either to his being the product of a furtive amour (Clericus), or to his existence being owing to his father's having stolen away from the destructive fury of the Israelites (Thenius); others, with greater probability, find in it an allusion to the Egyptian deity Kneph or Cnuphis. SEE HADAD.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.