Taanach
A Caanite royal city, Jos 12:21, in the territory of Issachar, but assigned to Manesseh, Jos 17:11; 21:25. There is still a small place called Taannuk on the south border of the...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Taber
To beat the tabret, a small drum or tambourine. The word is used in Na 2:7 of women beating their breasts in sign of grief.
Taberah
Burning, so named on account of the fire which fell upon the Israelites for their murmings while encamped here, Nu 11:1-3De 9:22.
Tabernacle
A tent, booth, pavilion, or temporary dwelling. For its general meaning and uses, seeTENT. In the Scriptures it is employed more particularly of the tent made by Moses at the co...
Tabitha
SeeDORCAS.
Table
SeeBREAD, andEATING.
Tabor
An isolated mountain of Galilee, on the northeastern side of the plain of Esdraelon, an arm of which extends beyond the mountain in the same direction. It is of limestone format...
Tabret
Ge 31:27Isa 5:12, a sort of small drum or tambourine, played as an accompaniment to singing. SeeTIMBREL.
Taches
Golden and brazen clasps, uniting the separate curtain of the tabernacle, Ex 26:6,11.
Tadmor Or Tamar
A palm-tree, 1Ki 9:18, a city founded by Solomon in the desert of Syria, on the borders of Arabia Dessert, towards the Euphrates, 2Ch 8:4. It was remote from human habitations, ...
Tahapanes
Jer 2:16, or Tahpanhes, Jer 43:7,9, or Tegaphnehes, Eze 30:18, the name of an Egyptian city, for which the Seventy put Taphne, and the Greek historians Daphne. This city lay in ...
Tale
Sometimes means a number, verified by counting, Ex 5:8,18; 1Ch 9:28.
Talent
This was a weight used among the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, but varying exceedingly in different countries and in different parts of the same country. The Jewish talent is usuall...
Talmai
King of Geshur, on the borders of Palestine and Syria. David married Maacha his daughter, the mother of Tamar and Absalom. The latter avenged the wrongs of his sister Tamar by t...
Tamar
A palm-tree,1. A Canaanitish woman, mother of Pharez and Zarah, Ge 38:1-30.2. A daughter of David. SeeTALMAI.3. A daughter of Absalom, 2Sa 14:27.
Tammuz
A Syrian idol, mentioned in Eze 8:14, where the women are represented as weeping for it. It is generally supposed that Tammuz was the same deity as the Phoenician Adonis, and pe...
Tapestry
Cloth for hangings and bed-covers, covered with ornamental needlework, Pr 7:16.
Tappuah
1. Now Teffuh, a town among the hills northwest of Hebron, Jos 1:17; 15:53.2. Another city of Judah, southwest of Hebron, Jos 15:34.3. A town on the line of Ephraim and Manesseh...
Tares
A noxious plant of the grass family, supposed to mean the darnel, the "infelix lolium" of Virgil, now called Siwan or Zowan by the Arabs. It grows among the wheat everywhere in ...
Target
1Sa 17:6, a small round shield. The same word in 1Sa 17:45 is translated a shield, and elsewhere a javelin. SeeARMOR.
Tarshish
1. The second son of Javan, Ge 10:4.2. Tartessus, an ancient city between two mouths of the Guadalquiver, in the south of Spain. It was a Phoenician colony, and was the most cel...
Tarsus
The name of a celebrated city, the metropolis of Cilicia, in the southeastern part of Asia Minor; situated six miles from the Mediterranean, on the banks of the river Cydnus, wh...
Tartak
An idol, introduced by the Avites into Samaria, 2Ki 17:31.
Tartan
An Assyrian general, sent to Jerusalem with Rabshakeh, by Sennacherib, 2Ki 18:17; and perhaps the same who captured Ashdod in the reign of Sargon, Isa 20:1.
Tatnai
A governor of Samaria under Darius, whose administration was characterized by great justice and moderation towards the Jews, Ezr 5:1-6:22, B. C. 519.
Taverns, Three
A village thirty-three miles south of Rome, mentioned by Cicero, and still called Tre Tavern. SeeAPPI FORUM.
Tears
Small urns or Lachrymatorises, of thin glass or simple pottery, and containing the tears of mourners at funerals, used to be placed in the sepulchres of the dead at Rome and in ...