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Meaning and etymology of the name Tebah
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Tebah 
Tebah is one of four sons of Abraham's brother Nahor with his concubine Reumah (Genesis 22:22).
The name Tebah comes from (tabah) meaning to slaughter, butcher, slay, kill. The basic meaning of this root is to deliberately slaughter or butcher an animal for food. Metaphorically the verb is used to indicate the preparation of wisdom for foolish mankind (Proverbs 9:2), or the description of a foolish young man's fate when he nears a prostitute for the wrong reasons (Proverbs 7:22). The verb is usually subject to the element of planning (Jeremiah 11:19), and used for the sacrificial slaughter, eventually even the Messianic offering (Isaiah 53:7), and the release of all nations (Isaiah 34:2). The noun (tebah) denotes the animal that is destined to be slaughtered. The noun (tabbah) means butcher (or cook), and came to denote guardsmen or body guards (Genesis 37:36)
The name Tebah most directly means Slaughter, but more practically he was probably known as Butcher.
For the sake of completeness we mention the solution of Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names, who suggests that the name Tebah was formed through the process of permutation; the reversal of letters. Hence Jones takes this name from the verb  (batah), meaning to trust in or feel safe, confident. Jones reads Confidence, but here at Abarim Publications we're more convinced by the similarity of the name Tebah to the verb meaning to slaughter.
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