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

Some years later, Shua's daughter (that is, Judah's wife) died. As Judah was grieving, he visited the shearers of his flock in Timnah, accompanied by his Adullamite friend Hirah.

"Look!" somebody reported to Tamar, "Your father-in-law is going to Timnah to shear his sheep."

So she took off her mourning apparel, covered herself with a shawl, and concealed her outward appearance. Then she went out and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah, because she knew that even though Shelah had grown up, she wasn't being given to him as his wife.