timna Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
timna in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
TIM'NA , TIM'NAH (restrained). 1. The concubine of Eliphaz, son of Esau, and mother of Amalek. Gen 36:12, Josh 11:22; 1 Chr 1:39. 2. An Edomite sheik. Gen 36:40; 1 Chr 1:51.
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 Genesis, namely, that Timna was mother of "Amalek," which follows. 2. A duke or phylarch of Edom (Genesis 36:40-43), so that Timna was probably the name of a district.