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# תִּרְצָה

Biblical Hebrew

**Tirzah** — used 4 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

Tirzah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e6_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּרְצָה: n.pr.f. loc. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e6_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. et loc. (pleasure, beauty);— f. daughter of Ṣelophehad of Gilead Nu 26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Jos 17:3; Θερσα. loc. old Can. city Jos 12:24, early cap. of N. Isr. (until Omri) 1 K 14:17 (תִּרְצָ֫תָה), 15:21, 23; 16:6, 8, 9(×2), 15, 17, 23, Θαρσα, usually Θερσα; Menahem’s base of operations 2 K 15:14, 16 (Θαρσ(ε)ιλα) v 14, EusebOnom. 263, 62, ed. Lag cp. Θαραιλα, village of Samaritans in Batanea, and BuhlGeogr. 247 conj. Tesîl, 20 m. E. of Lake Gennesaret, but this too remote); in sim. of beauty (om. 𝔊) Ct 6:4 (‖ יְרוּשָׁלַם);—site not certain; conj. are: Tallûza, just N. of Mt. Ebal (RobBR iii. 302 f.), Tayaṣir, c. 10 m. further NE., \> eṭ-Ṭîre, S. of Gerizim (see, on these, GASmGeogr. 355 BuhlGeogr. 203 Aglen Hast. DB s. v.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 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: Tirzah (4).

## In the verses

[Numbers 36:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.36.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.36.11/#tree)

וַתִּהְיֶ֜ינָה מַחְלָ֣ה תִרְצָ֗ה וְחָגְלָ֧ה וּמִלְכָּ֛ה וְנֹעָ֖ה בְּנ֣וֹת צְלָפְחָ֑ד לִבְנֵ֥י דֹדֵיהֶ֖ן לְנָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and they.belonged Mahlah Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah and Noah the.daughters of.Zelophehad to the.sons their.uncles their to wives

*JPS 1917:* For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons.

[Numbers 26:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.33/#tree)

וּצְלָפְחָ֣ד בֶּן־חֵ֗פֶר לֹא־הָ֥יוּ ל֛וֹ בָּנִ֖ים כִּ֣י אִם־בָּנ֑וֹת וְשֵׁם֙ בְּנ֣וֹת צְלָפְחָ֔ד מַחְלָ֣ה וְנֹעָ֔ה חָגְלָ֥ה מִלְכָּ֖ה וְתִרְצָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Zelophehad the.son of.Hepher not they.belonged to him sons (dm) (if) daughters and the.name of.the.daughters of.Zelophehad \[was\].Mahlah and Noah Hoglah Milcah and Tirzah

*JPS 1917:* And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e6_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e8_5b0_5e6_5b8_5d4/): 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).