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Strong's #8553: Timnah (pronounced tim-naw')

from 4487; a portion assigned; Timnah, the name of two places in Palestine:--Timnah, Timnath, Thimnathah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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timnâh

Timnath or Timnah or Thimnathah = "portion"

1) a town on the northern boundary of Judah later assigned to Dan

2) a town in the hill country of Judah

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H4487



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Genesis 38:12: "was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend"
Genesis 38:13: "Behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep."
Genesis 38:14: "place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that"
Joshua 15:10: "on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:"
Joshua 15:57: "Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:"
Joshua 19:43: "And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,"
Judges 14:1: "And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters"
Judges 14:1: "to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines."
Judges 14:2: "and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now"
Judges 14:5: "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards"
Judges 14:5: "to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion"
2 Chronicles 28:18: "and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt"









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