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Timnath

Disambiguation

The source enumerates 2 distinct subjects under Timnath. Jump to one below, or read in order.

  1. 1.Heb.
  2. 2.The town where Samson sojourned, probably identical with “Timnah” (1) (Judg.

Gen. 38:12, 14.

  1. Timnath (1)

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    Heb. Timnathah, which is appropriately rendered in the Revised Version, Timnah, a town in Judah.

  2. Timnath (2)

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    The town where Samson sojourned, probably identical with “Timnah” (1) (Judg. 14:1-18).

Also from Smith's (1884) +

[Timna, Or Timnah, Timnah]

In the Bible

9

Verses where Timnath is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • Genesis 38:12

    After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

  • Genesis 38:13

    When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

  • Genesis 38:14

    she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

  • Joshua 19:50

    as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the city of Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, as he requested. He rebuilt the city and settled in it.

  • Joshua 24:30

    And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

  • Judges 2:9

    They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

+3 more verses naming Timnath.

Timnath references

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Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)

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