Timnath in the Bible

Meaning: image; figure; enumeration

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and Timnath hath been concubine to Eliphaz son of Esau, and she beareth to Eliphaz, Amalek; these are sons of Adah wife of Esau.

Verse ConceptsConcubines

And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessSheep ShearingDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsMourning The Death Of Others

And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

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

And Ailon and Timnath and Ekron,

{According to the commandment of Yahweh}, they gave him the city that he requested, Timnath Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt the city and settled in it.

Verse ConceptsTownRebuilding Named Cities

They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, at Timnath-Serah, which [is] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadBurying places

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of Man, Righteous

And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningWedding FeastsLeaving Parents For Spouse

Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

Verse ConceptsLionsVineyardChampionsIn Danger From Lions

Thematic Bible



Samson went to Timnah with his father and mother. When they traveled through the vineyards he heard a young lion roaring.

One day Samson traveled to Timnah. He noticed a young Philistine woman. He went home and told his father and mother: A Philistine woman at Timnah caught my attention. Get her for me. I want to marry her.

When the Philistines asked who had done this, they learned that Samson had done it because his father-in-law, a man from Timnah, had given Samson's wife to a friend of Samson's. So the Philistines burned the woman to death and burned down her father's house.


After some time Judah's wife died. When he finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah of Adullam went to Timnah, where his sheep were being sheared. Tamar found out that her father-in-law Judah was going to Timnah to shear his sheep. She realized that Shelah was now a grown man. She had not been allowed to marry him. So she decided to dress in something other than her widow's clothes and to cover her face with a veil. Then she sat outside the town of Enaim on the road to Timnah.