Timnah in the Bible

Meaning: forbidding

Exact Match

Timnah was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz. She bore Amalek to Eliphaz.

Verse ConceptsConcubines

And these the names of the chiefs of Esau according to their tribes, according to their places, in their names: chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief Jeheth,

Verse ConceptsRulers Of Edom

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to the sheepshearers.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessSheep ShearingDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsMourning The Death Of Others

Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfGrowing UpClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffSitting In The GatewaydisguisesUsing RoadsDistinctive ClothingGiving In Marriage

Thematic Bible



And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.

Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:


And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,

These are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of their families and their places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,


Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places.


References

Hastings

Easton

Fausets

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain