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 rovers invaded upon the cities of the low country, and the south to Judah, and they will take the house of the sun, and the oak, and the walls, and the branches and her daughters, and the portion assigned and her daughters, and Gimzo and her daughters: and they will dwell there.

And the bound encompassed from Baalah to the sea to mount Seir, and passed over to the shoulder of Jearim from the north (this is Chesalon) and it went down to the House of the Sun, and passed over to Timnah:


And Hadad will die. And the chiefs of Edom will be chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth.

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,


Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities and their enclosures:


References

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