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Ebez (Template:Langx meaning "tin", or "white")<ref>The proposed meanings "tin" and "white" appear in Easton's Bible Dictionary, "Abez."</ref> also rendered Abez, was a town in the allotment of the tribe of Issachar, at the north of the Jezreel Valley, or plain of Esdraelon.<ref>The form "Abez" is found in the King James Version; "Ebez" in the Revised Version.</ref> F. R. and C. R. Conder (1879), believed that it was probably the ruins of el-Beida, but William Robertson Smith (1899) expressed doubt about this identification.<ref>"Probably the ruin el-Beida, 'white,' at the north limit of the Plain of Esdraelon." Template:Cite book</ref><ref>W. Robertson Smith (1899), "Abez." In Cheyne and Black, eds., Encyclopaedia Biblica.</ref> According to the 1915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), the location is not known.<ref>James Orr, ed. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), entry for "Ebez." The full entry reads: "Ebez, e'-bez ('ebhets, meaning unknown; Rhebes; the King James Version Abez): One of the 16 cities in Issachar (Jos 19:20). The name seems to be cognate to that of the judge Ibzan (Jg 12:8-10). All else concerning it is conjecture."</ref> It is mentioned only in Template:Bibleverse, where various manuscripts of the Septuagint render it as Rebes (Template:Langx), Aeme, or Aemis.<ref>W. Robertson Smith (1899), "Abez." In Cheyne and Black, eds., Encyclopaedia Biblica.</ref> It is mentioned on the façade of the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu as Apijaa.<ref name = Gauthier67>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name = Budge956>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name = Recueil>Template:Cite book</ref>