an egg; muddy
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
A town in Issachar (Jos_19:20). From a Chaldee term meaning "tin"; or else a contraction for Thebez, near Shunem.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
A'bez. (lofty). A town in the possession of Issachar, named between Kishion and Remeth in Jos_19:20 only.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a?bez: Used in the King James Version (Jos_19:20) for EBEZ.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Abez
(Heb. E'bets, אֶבֶוֹ, in pause אָבֶוֹ A bets, lustre, and hence, perhaps, tin; Sept. Αεμές, Vulg. Abes), a town in the tribe of Issachar, apparently near the border, mentioned between Kishion and Remeth (Jos_19:20). It is probably the Abesap (Α᾿βέσαρος) mentioned by Josephus (Ant. 6:13, 8) as the native city of the wife whom David had married prior to Abigail and after his deprival of Michal; possibly referring to Ahinoam the Jezreelitess (1Sa_25:43), as if she had been so called as having resided in some town of the valley of Esdraelon. According to Schwarz (Palest. p. 167), it is probably the village of Kunebiz, called also Karm en-Abiz, which lies three English miles west-south-west from Iksal; meaning the Khuneifis or Ukhneifis of Robinson (Researches, 3, 167, 218), which is in the general locality indicated by the associated names.
ADDENDUM FROM VOLUME 11:
Abez
Lieuit. Coitier (Tent Work, 2, 334) thinks this is the ruined site Khurbet el- Beida, marked on the Ordnance Map eight miles west of Nazareth and two south-west of Beit-Lahm, remarking (Quar. Report of the "Pal. Explor. Fund," Jan. 1881, p. 49) that "the Arabic exactly corresponds [?] to the Hebrew, with the same meaning, white' but this seems doubtful.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.