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תִּרְצָה

Tirtsâh · H8656 · Hebrew · proper noun · 18 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Tirzah

    Woman; daughter of Zelophehad; tribe of Manasseh

    Examples

    Numbers 26:33 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    Numbers 27:1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came forward; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    Numbers 36:11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

  2. Tirzah

    Town; territory of Manasseh

    Examples

    Joshua 12:24 the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

    1 Kings 14:17 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.

    1 Kings 15:21 When Baasha heard about it, he stopped fortifying Ramah and remained in Tirzah.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

12 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of People003001007
This proper name identifies Tirzah, one of the daughters of Zelophehad, as in Numbers 26:33.
Names of Locations003001010
The name also identifies Tirzah, a Canaanite royal city, as in Joshua 12:24's list of kings defeated by Israel.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8656. Tirtsah תִּרְצָה proper name, feminine and of a location (pleasure, beauty); — 1.…
H8656. Tirtsah
תִּרְצָה proper name, feminine and
of a location (pleasure, beauty); —
1. feminine daughter of Selophehad of Gilead Num 26:33; Num 27:1; Num 36:11; Jos 17:3; Θερσα.
2. location old Canaanite city Jos 12:24, early cap. of Northern Israel (until Omri) 1Ki 14:17 (תִּרְצָ֫תָה), 1Ki 15:21, 1Ki 15:33; 1Ki 16:6, 1Ki 16:8, 1Ki 16:9 (twice in verse); 1Ki 16:15, 1Ki 16:17, 1Ki 16:23, Θαρσα, usually Θερσα; Menahem's base of operations 2Ki 15:14, 2Ki 15:16 (Θαρς(ε)ιλα 2Ki 15:14, EusebOnom. 263, 62, ed. Lag compare Θαρσιλα, village of Samaritans in Batanea, and BuhlGeogr. 247 conjecture Tesîl, 20 miles east of Lake Gennesaret, but this too remote); in simile of beauty (omitted by ᵐ5) Son 6:4 (|| יְרוּשָׁלַם); — site not certain; conjectured are: Tallûza, just north of Mt. Ebal (RobBR iii. 302 f.), Tayaƒir, approximately 10 miles further northeast, > e‰-ˆîre, south of Gerizim (see, on these, GASmGeogr. 355 BuhlGeogr. 203 AglenHast. DB. under the word).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People4 occurrencesNames of Locations14 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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