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# תַּחְפַּנְחֵס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8471

**Tahapanes** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Tahapanes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8471/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּחְפַּנְחֵס: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8471/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Egyptian city Je 43:7, 8, 9; 44:1; 46:14, so Je 2:16 Qr (Kt תחפנס); = תְּחַפְנְחֵס Ez 30:18; Ταφνα(ι)ς \[Ταφναι\]; identif. with Gk. Daphnae, mod. Tel Defenneh, c. 18 m. ESE. from Tanis, c. 9 m. W. of El-Ḳanṭara, BädEgypt, 5th ed. (1902), 169 Petrie Defenneh (Tanis II), 1888.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tahpanhes (7).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.16/#tree)

גַּם־בְּנֵי־נֹ֖ף וְתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס יִרְע֖וּךְ קָדְקֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* also the.people of.Memphis and Tahpanhes they will.graze.you crown.of.head

*JPS 1917:* The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy head.

[Jeremiah 43:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.43.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.43.8/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֶֽל־יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ בְּתַחְפַּנְחֵ֖ס לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8471.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8471/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).