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# תַּחְפְּנֵיס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8472

**Tahpenes** — used 3 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

Tahpenes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8472/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּחְפְּנֵיס: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8472/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Egyptian queen;—1 K 11:19, 20, -נֵס v 20; Θεκ\[χ\]εμεινα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Tahpenes (2); Tahpenes (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 11:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.19/#tree)

וַיִּמְצָא֙ הֲדַ֥ד חֵ֛ן בְּעֵינֵ֥י פַרְעֹ֖ה מְאֹ֑ד וַיִּתֶּן־ל֤וֹ אִשָּׁה֙ אֶת־אֲח֣וֹת אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ אֲח֖וֹת תַּחְפְּנֵ֥יס הַגְּבִירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.found Hadad favor in the.eyes of.Pharaoh exceedingly and he.gave to him a.wife (et) the.sister his.own.wife his the.sister of.Tahpenes the queen

*JPS 1917:* And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

[1 Kings 11:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.20/#tree)

וַתֵּ֨לֶד ל֜וֹ אֲח֣וֹת תַּחְפְּנֵ֗יס אֵ֚ת גְּנֻבַ֣ת בְּנ֔וֹ וַתִּגְמְלֵ֣הוּ תַחְפְּנֵ֔ס בְּת֖וֹךְ בֵּ֣ית פַּרְעֹ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י גְנֻבַת֙ בֵּ֣ית פַּרְעֹ֔ה בְּת֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י פַרְעֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore to him the.sister of.Tahpenes (et) Genubath son his and she weaned.him Tahpenes in the.midst of.the.household of.Pharaoh and he.was Genubath the.house of.Pharaoh among the.sons of.Pharaoh

*JPS 1917:* And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8472.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8472/): 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).