TIMNAHtim'-na (timnah, timnathah (Joshua 19:43 Judges 14:1, 2, 5), "allotted portion; Codex Vaticanus Thamnatha; also several Greek variations; King James Version has Timnath in Genesis 38:12, 13, 14 Judges 14:1, 2, 5; and Thimnathah in Joshua 19:43):(1) A town in the southern part of the hill country of Judah (Joshua 15:57). Tibna proposed by Conder, a ruin... View Details
Esau [N] [H] [S] hairy, Rebekah's first-born twin son ( Genesis 25:25 ). The name of Edom, "red", was also given to him from his conduct in connection with the red lentil "pottage" for which he sold his birthright (30,31). The circumstances connected with his birth foreshadowed the enmity which afterwards subsisted between the twin brothers and the nations they founded ( Genesis 25:22 Gene... View Details
|territory,| two cities in Judah
an Edomite name
Jetheth [N] [H] [S] a peg, or a prince, one of the Edomitish kings of Mount Seir ( Genesis 36:40 ). These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.