Bible Names N-Z

Talmon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(oppressor), the head of a family of door-keepers in the temple, "the porters for the camps of the sons: of Levi." 1Ch 9:17; Ne 11:19 (B.C. 1013.) Some of his descendants returned with Zerubbabel, Ezr 2:43; Ne 7:45 and were employed in their hereditary office in the days of Nehemiah and Ezra. Ne 12:25...

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Tarshish in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Tartessus (as Asshur became Athur, Bashan, Batanoea), a Phoenician city S. of Spain; the portion of Spain known to the Hebrew (Psalm 72:10). "The kings of Tarshish ... kings of Sheba," i.e. the wealthy Tarshish in the far W. and Sheba in the S.E. Tarshish was a dependency of Phoenician Tyre. Isaiah 23:6; Isaiah 23:10 ("pass through thy land as...

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Tartan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a general (official title)...

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Talmon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Nehemiah 11:19; 1 Chronicles 9:17; Ezra 2:42, "the children of Talmon"; Nehemiah 7:45; Nehemiah 11:19....

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Tarshish in Hitchcock's Bible Names

contemplation; examination...

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Tatnai in Naves Topical Bible

-A Persian governor in Samaria Ezr 5:3,6; 6:6,13...

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Talmon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

oppressed. (1.) A Levite porter (1 Chr. 9:17; Neh. 11:19). (2.) One whose descendants returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:42; Neh. 7:45); probably the same as (1)....

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Tatnai in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(gift), satrap of the province west of the Euphrates in the time of Darius Hystaspes. Ezr 5:3,6; 6:6,13 (B.C. 520.) The name is thought to be Persian....

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Tanhumeth in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Jeremiah 40:8; 2 Kings 25:23....

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Tartan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

tar'-tan (tartan): For a long time the word was interpreted as a proper name, but the Assyrian inscriptions have shown it to be the title of a high official. From the eponym lists it would seem that it was the title of the highest official next to the king, which in a military empire like Assyria would be the "commander-in-chief." The Assyrian...

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