a sandy place, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, on the south-western border of the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles south of Megiddo. Its king was conquered by Joshua (12:21). It was assigned to t ...
Taanath-shiloh:
approach to Shiloh, a place on the border of Ephraim (Josh. 16:6), probably the modern T'ana, a ruin 7 miles south-east of Shechem, on the ridge east of the Mukhnah plain.
Tabbaoth:
impressions; rings, “the children of,“ returned from the Captivity (Ezra 2:43).
Tabbath:
famous, a town in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg. 7:22), to the south of Bethshean, near the Jordan.
Tabeal:
goodness of God, the father of one whom the kings of Syria and Samaria in vain attempted to place on the throne of Ahaz (Isa. 7:6).
Tabeel:
a Persian governor of Samaria, who joined others in the attempt to prevent the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Ezra 4:7).
Taberah:
burning, a place in the wilderness of Paran, where the “fire of the Lord“ consumed the murmuring Israelites (Num. 11:3; Deut. 9:22). It was also called Kibroth-hattaavah (q.v.).
Tabering:
playing on a small drum or tabret. In Nahum 2:7, where alone it occurs, it means beating on the breast, as players beat on the tabret.
Tabernacle:
(1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., “Siccuth“). (3.) The human body (2 Cor. ...
Tabernacles, Feast of:
the third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev. 23:33-43). It is also called the “feast of ingathering“ (Ex. 23:16; Deut. 16:13). It was celebrated immediately after the harvest, in the ...
Tabitha:
(in Greek called Dorcas), gazelle, a disciple at Joppa. She was distinguished for her alms-deeds and good works. Peter, who was sent for from Lydda on the occasion of her death, prayed over the dead ...
Tables:
(Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of raised tables like ours, was introduced among the Jews after the Captivity ...
Tablet:
probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Ex. 35:22; Num. 31:50). In Isa. 3:20 the Hebrew word means a perfume-box, as it is rendered in the Revised Version.
Tabor:
a height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive an ...
Tabret:
(Heb. toph), a timbrel (q.v.) or tambourine, generally played by women (Gen. 31:27; 1 Sam. 10:5; 18:6). In Job 17:6 the word (Heb. topheth) “tabret“ should be, as in the Revised Version, “an op ...
Tabrimon:
good is Rimmon, the father of Benhadad, king of Syria (1 Kings 15:18).
Taches:
hooks or clasps by which the tabernacle curtains were connected (Ex. 26:6, 11, 33; 35:11).
Tachmonite:
=Hach'monite, a name given to Jashobeam (2 Sam. 23:8; comp. 1 Chr. 11:11).
Tackling:
(Isa. 33:23), the ropes attached to the mast of a ship. In Acts 27:19 this word means generally the furniture of the ship or the “gear“ (27:17), all that could be removed from the ship.
Tadmor:
palm, a city built by Solomon “in the wilderness“ (2 Chr. 8:4). In 1 Kings 9:18, where the word occurs in the Authorized Version, the Hebrew text and the Revised Version read “Tamar,“ which i ...
Tahapanes:
=Tahpanhes=Tehaphnehes, (called “Daphne“ by the Greeks, now Tell Defenneh), an ancient Egyptian city, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, about 16 miles from Pelusium. The Jews from Jerusalem fled ...
Tahpenes:
the wife of Pharaoh, who gave her sister in marriage to Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:19, 20).
Tahtim-hodshi:
the land of the newly inhabited, (2 Sam. 24:6). It is conjectured that, instead of this word, the reading should be, “the Hittites of Kadesh,“ the Hittite capital, on the Orontes. It was apparent ...
Tale:
(1.) Heb. tokhen, “a task,“ as weighed and measured out = tally, i.e., the number told off; the full number (Ex. 5:18; see 1 Sam. 18:27; 1 Chr. 9:28). In Ezek. 45:11 rendered “measure.“ (2.) ...
Talent:
of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as ...
Talitha cumi:
(Mark 5:41), a Syriac or Aramaic expression, meaning, “Little maid, arise.“ Peter, who was present when the miracle was wrought, recalled the actual words used by our Lord, and told them to Mark.
Talmai:
abounding in furrows. (1.) One of the Anakim of Hebron, who were slain by the men of Judah under Caleb (Num. 13:22; Josh. 15:14; Judg. 1:10). (2.) A king of Geshur, to whom Absalom fled after he had ...
Talmon:
oppressed. (1.) A Levite porter (1 Chr. 9:17; Neh. 11:19). (2.) One whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:42; Neh. 7:45); probably the same as (1).
Tamar:
palm. (1.) A place mentioned by Ezekiel (47:19; 48:28), on the southeastern border of Palestine. Some suppose this was “Tadmor“ (q.v.). (2.) The daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er, ...
Tamarisk:
Heb. 'eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., “grove,“ “tree“); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a “very graceful tree, with lon ...
Tammuz:
a corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the month of Ju ...
Tanhumeth:
consolation, a Netophathite; one of the captains who supported Gedaliah (2 Kings 25:23; Jer. 40:8).
Tanis:
(Ezek. 30:14, marg.). See ZOAN.
Tappuah:
apple-region. (1.) A town in the valley or lowland of Judah; formerly a royal city of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:17; 15:34). It is now called Tuffuh, about 12 miles west of Jerusalem. (2.) A town on th ...
Tarah:
stopping; station, an encampment of the Hebrews in the wilderness (Num. 33:27, 28).
Tares:
the bearded darnel, mentioned only in Matt. 13:25-30. It is the Lolium temulentum, a species of rye-grass, the seeds of which are a strong soporific poison. It bears the closest resemblance to wheat ...
Target:
(1 Sam. 17:6, A.V., after the LXX. and Vulg.), a kind of small shield. The margin has “gorget,“ a piece of armour for the throat. The Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (kidon ...
Tarshish:
a Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning “the sea coast.“ (1.) One of the “sons“ of Javan (Gen. 10:4; 1 Chr. 1:7). (2.) The name of a place which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon. The ...
Tarsus:
the chief city of Cilicia. It was distinguished for its wealth and for its schools of learning, in which it rivalled, nay, excelled even Athens and Alexandria, and hence was spoken of as “no mean c ...
Tartak:
prince of darkness, one of the gods of the Arvites, who colonized part of Samaria after the deportation of Israel by Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:31).