Strongs's #8656: Tirtsah - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #8656: Tirtsah (pronounced teer-tsaw')

from 7521; delightsomeness; Tirtsah, a place in Palestine; also an Israelitess:--Tirzah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tirtsâh

Tirzah = "favourable"
1) one of the 7 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of Manasseh (noun proper feminine)
2) one of the kingdoms on the west of the Jordan conquered by Joshua and the Israelites (noun proper locative)
3) a Canaanite city, later capital of the northern kingdom of Israel (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H7521

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

Numbers 26:33: "were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah."
Numbers 27:1: "Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah."
Numbers 36:11: "For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married"
Joshua 12:24: "The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one."
Joshua 17:3: "Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah."
1 Kings 14:17: "arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door,"
1 Kings 15:21: "building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."
1 Kings 15:33: "over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years."
1 Kings 16:6: "with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead."
1 Kings 16:8: "to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years."
1 Kings 16:9: "conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza"
1 Kings 16:9: "of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah."
1 Kings 16:15: "reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon,"
1 Kings 16:17: "Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah."
1 Kings 16:23: "years: six years reigned he in Tirzah."
2 Kings 15:14: "the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote"
2 Kings 15:16: "and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not"
Song of Solomon 6:4: "Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners."

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