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Timothy in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

First mentioned (Acts 16:1) as dwelling in Lystra (not Derbe, Acts 20:4; compare 2 Timothy 3:11). His mother was Eunice, a Jewess (2 Timothy 1:5); his father a Greek, i.e. a Gentile; he died probably in Timothy's early years, as he is not mentioned later. Timothy is called "a disciple," so that his conversion must have been before the time of ...

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Tirhakah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(exalted?) king of Ethiopia (Cush), the opponent of Sennacherib. 2Ki 19:9; Isa 37:9 He may be identified with Tarkos or Tarakos, who was the third and last king of the twenty-fifth dynasty, which was of Ethiopians. His accession was probably about B.C. 695. Possibly Tirhakah ruled over Ethiopia before becoming king of Egypt....

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Titus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Paul's companion in missionary tours. Not mentioned in Acts. A Greek, and therefore a Gentile (Galatians 2:1; Galatians 2:3); converted through Paul (Titus 1:4), "mine own son after the common faith." Included in the "certain other of them" who accompanied the apostle and Barnabas when they were deputed from the church of Antioch to consult th...

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Tirhakah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty. He was the brother-in-law of So (q.v.). He probably ascended the throne about B.C. 692, having been previously king of Ethiopia (2 Kings 19:9; Isa. 37:9), which with Egypt now formed one nation. He was a great warrior, and but little is known of him. The Assyrian armies unde...

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Titus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

pleasing...

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Tiras in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ti'-ras (tirac; Theiras, Lucian Thiras): A son of Japheth (Gen 10:2 (P); 1 Ch 1:5). Not mentioned elsewhere; this name was almost unanimously taken by the ancient commentators (so Josephus, Ant, I, vi, 1) to be the same as that of the Thracians (Thrakes); but the removal of the nominative ending -s does away with this surface resemblance. Tuch...

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Timaeus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

defiled, the father of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46)....

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Timon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ti'-mon (Timon): One of "the seven" chosen to relieve the apostles by attending to "the daily ministration" to the poor of the Christian community in Jerusalem (Acts 6:5). The name is Greek, but as Nicolaus is distinguished from the remaining six as a proselyte, Timon and the others were probably Jews by birth....

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Timotheus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the Greek form of the name of Timothy (Acts 16:1, etc.; the R.V. always "Timothy")....

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Timnah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("a divided or assigned part".) 1. Judah went to shear his sheep in Timnah (Genesis 38:13-14). 2. A boundary town in Judah on the N. side (Joshua 15:10). Near the western extremity, further than Bethshemesh, toward Ekron; in the shephelah or low hills between the mountains and the plain (2 Chronicles 28:18). Probably the same as TIMNATHAH ...

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