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# תִּמְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8553

**Timnah** — used 12 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

Timnah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8553/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּמְנָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8553/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (prob.=portion, territory);—(תִּמְנָה Jos 15:10, 57 2 Ch 28:18; תִּמְנָ֫תָה \[as nomin. v. GFM Ju 14:1\] Jos 19:43 Ju 14:1, 2, 5; c. ה loc. תִּמְנָ֫תָה Gn 38:12, 13, 14 Ju 14:1, 5; 𝔊 Θαμνα, Θαμναθα):— place in hill-country of Judah Gn 38:12, 13, 14 prob.=Jos 15:57. Site unknown (cf. Di Gn 38:12 RobBR ii. 17 n.). place on border of Judah Jos 15:10; 19:43 (assigned to Dan), Ju 14:1(×2), 2, 5(×2); 2 Ch 28:18. Mod. Tibneh, c. 15 m. S. of W. from Jerusalem cf. RobBR ii.17 BuhlGeogr. 196.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Timnah (5); to (4); (of) to (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.43/#tree)

וְאֵיל֥וֹן וְתִמְנָ֖תָה וְעֶקְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Elon and (to) Timnah and Ekron

*JPS 1917:* and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron;

[Joshua 15:57](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.57/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.57/#tree)

הַקַּ֖יִן גִּבְעָ֣ה וְתִמְנָ֑ה עָרִ֥ים עֶ֖שֶׂר וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* (the) Kain Gibeah and Timnah cities ten and villages their

*JPS 1917:* Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8553/): 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).