Designation of Elisha (1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 21:17,28; 2 Kings 1:3,8; 2 Kings 9:36. The LXX in 1 Kings 17 has “the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad.” Josephus has “of Thesbon, a country in Gilead,” probably copied from the LXX. No such place is known. Some suppose the word to signify “the stranger.”