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Smith's Bible Dictionary
empire. The grandeur and magnificence of the ruins of Palmyra cannot be exceeded, and attest its
former greatness. Among the most remarkable are the Tombs, the Temple of the Sun and the Street
of Columns.
Tahan
(camp), a descendant of Ephraim. (Numbers 26:35) In (1 Chronicles 7:25) he appears as the
son of Telah.
Tahanites, The
(Numbers 26:35) [Tahan]
Tahath
the name of a desert station of the Israelites between Makheloth and Tarah. (Numbers 33:26)
The site has not been identified.
(station).
•A Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Samuel and Heman. (1 Chronicles 6:22,37; 9:22) (B.C. about
1415.)
•According to the present text, son of Bered, and great-grandson of Ephraim. (1 Chronicles 7:20)
Burrington, however, identifies Tahath with Tahan, the son of Ephraim.
•Grandson of the preceding, as the text now stands. (1 Chronicles 7:20) But Burrington considers
him as a son of Ephraim.
Tahpanhes, Tehaphnehes, Tahapanes
a city of Egypt, mentioned in the time of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The name is
evidently Egyptian, and closely resembles that of the Egyptian queen Tahpenes. It was evidently
a town of lower Egypt, near or on the eastern border. When Johanan and the other captains went
into Egypt “they came to Tahpanhes.” (Jeremiah 43:7) The Jews in Jeremiah’s time remained here.
(Jeremiah 44:1) It was an important town, being twice mentioned by the latter prophet with Noph
or Memphis. (Jeremiah 2:16; 46:14) Here stood a house of Pharaoh-hophra before which Jeremiah
hid great stones. (Jeremiah 43:8-10)
Tahpenes
an Egyptian queen, was wife of the Pharaoh who received Hadad the Edomite, and who gave
him her sister in marriage. (1 Kings 11:18-20) (B.C. about 1000.)
Tahrea
(cunning), son of Micah and grandson of Mephibosheth. (1 Chronicles 9:41) (B.C. after 1057.)
Tahtimhodshi
(lowlands of Hodshi?), The land of, one of the places visited by Joab during his census of the
land of Israel. It occurs between Gilead and Dan-jaan. (2 Samuel 24:6) The name has puzzled all
the interpreters, (Kitto says it was probably a section of the upper valley of the Jordan, now called
Ard el-Huleh, lying deep down at the western base of Hermon.—ED.)
Talent
[Weights And Measures AND Measures]
Talitha Cumi
two Syriac words, (Mark 5:41) signifying damsel, arise .
Talmai
(bold).
•One of the three sons of “the Anak” who were slain by the men of Judah. (Numbers 13:22; Joshua
15:14; Judges 1:10) (B.C. 1450.)
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