Tahan in the Bible

Meaning: beseeching; merciful

Exact Match

To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. [And there were sons born to Manasseh, which the Aramean concubine bore to him: Machir. And Machir begot Gilead. And the sons of Ephraim, the brother of Manasseh: Shuthelah and Tahan. And the sons of Shuthelah: Eran.]

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These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

And Rephah [was] his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,

Thematic Bible



his son Rephah, his son Resheph,
his son Telah, his son Tahan,


These were Ephraim’s descendants by their clans:
the Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah;
the Becherite clan from Becher;
the Tahanite clan from Tahan.


References

Hastings

Fausets

Morish

Smith

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