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# תִּירָס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8494

**Tiras** — used 2 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

Tiras [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8494/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּירָ֑ס: n.pr.terr. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8494/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. et gent. ‘son’ of Japhet Gn 10:2; 1 Ch 1:5; Θειρας; identified by MeyGesch. d. Alt. i. 260 Di Holz Gunk al. with Gk. Τυρσηνοί, Egypt. Turuša, on coast of Ægean.

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: Tiras (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י יֶ֔פֶת גֹּ֣מֶר וּמָג֔וֹג וּמָדַ֖י וְיָוָ֣ן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ וְתִירָֽס׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Japheth \[were\].Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

[1 Chronicles 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.5/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י יֶ֔פֶת גֹּ֣מֶר וּמָג֔וֹג וּמָדַ֖י וְיָוָ֣ן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ וְתִירָֽס׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Japheth \[were\].Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8494.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8494/): 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).