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# תִּרְצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8656

**Tirzah** — used 14 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/1514/8656/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּרְצָה: n.pr.f. loc. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8656/#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, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 (12); of Tirzah (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.24/#tree)

מֶ֥לֶךְ תִּרְצָ֖ה אֶחָ֑ד כָּל־מְלָכִ֖ים שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וְאֶחָֽד׃פ

*Word for word:* the.king of.Tirzah one all \[the\].kings \[were\].thirty and one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Tirzah, one. All the kings thirty and one.

[Song of Songs 6:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.4/#tree)

יָפָ֨ה אַ֤תְּ רַעְיָתִי֙ כְּתִרְצָ֔ה נָאוָ֖ה כִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם אֲיֻמָּ֖ה כַּנִּדְגָּלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].beautiful you my.friend my like Tirzah lovely like Jerusalem majestic like.(the).\[hosts\] with banners

*JPS 1917:* Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8656/): 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).