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Timeus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

perfect; admirable; honorable...

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Timon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

one of the seven, commonly called "deacons." Ac 6:1-6 He was probably a Hellenist. (A.D. 34.)...

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Timna in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Eliphaz' concubine, mother of Amalek (Genesis 36:12; Genesis 36:22); in 1 Chronicles 1:36 Timna is not, as apparently, a son of Eliphaz. Probably sister of Lotan, daughter of the Horite Seir. The feminine form of Timna shows that it is introduced in Chronicles as an abbreviation for what the chronicler knew his readers understood from Genes...

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Timna in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

tim'-na (timna`; Thamna): A conbubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son, and the mother of Amalek (Gen 36:12). But in Gen 36:22 and 1 Ch 1:39 Timna is the sister of Lotan, and in Gen 36:40 and 1 Ch 1:51 a chief or elan of Edom (see TIMNAH (3)). These variations are to be expected when the origin of genealogies is recalled. (In Genesis, English Versions o...

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Timon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

honouring, one of the seven deacons at Jerusalem (Acts 6:5). Nothing further is known of him....

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Timnah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

tim'-na (timnah, timnathah (Josh 19:43; Jdg 14:1,2,5), "allotted portion; Codex Vaticanus Thamnatha; also several Greek variations; King James Version has Timnath in Gen 38:12,13,14; Jdg 14:1,2,5; and Thimnathah in Josh 19:43): (1) A town in the southern part of the hill country of Judah (Josh 15:57). Tibna proposed by Conder, a ruin 8 miles We...

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Timna in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Concubine of Eliphaz Ge 36:12 -2. Daughter of Seir Ge 36:22; 1Ch 1:39 -3. Son of Eliphaz 1Ch 1:36...

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Timon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Fifth of the seven deacons (Acts 6:1-6). His name indicates he was a Hellenist. Grecians were the most fit to secure the Grecian widows from neglect in the distribution of alms....

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Timna in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(restraint). 1. A concubine of Eliphaz son of Esau, and mother of Amalek Ge 36:12 it may be presumed that she was the same as Timna sister of Lotan. Ibid. ver. 22, and 1Ch 1:39 (B.C. after 1800.) 2. A duke or phylarch of Edom in the last list in Ge 36:40-43; 1Ch 1:51-54 Timnah was probably the name of a place or a district. [See the followin...

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Tiglath-Pileser III in Easton's Bible Dictionary

or Tilgath-Pil-neser, the Assyrian throne-name of Pul (q.v.). He appears in the Assyrian records as gaining, in the fifth year of his reign (about B.C. 741), a victory over Azariah (= Uzziah in 2 Chr.26:1), king of Judah, whose achievements are described in 2 Chr. 26:6-15. He is first mentioned in Scripture, however, as gaining a victory ...

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