תַּחְפַּנְחֵס
Tahpanhes
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8471 appears — 7 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 2:16 ו/תחפנס וְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס conj + n Proper conj + n Proper The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
- Jeremiah 43:7 תַּחְפַּנְחֵֽס n Proper and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes.
- Jeremiah 43:8 בְּ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֖ס prep + n Proper Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
- Jeremiah 43:9 בְּ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס prep + n Proper Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
- Jeremiah 44:1 וּ/בְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֣ס conj + prep + n Proper The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
- Jeremiah 46:14 וּ/בְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס conj + prep + n Proper Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about you.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
תחפנחס (Tachpanchêç) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Tahpanhes.” It clusters heavily in Jeremiah, which alone accounts for 86% of its uses. With 7 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Jeremiah 2:16, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8471 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Tahpanhes 4×
- American Standard Version: Tahpanhes 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tahpanhes 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tahpanhes 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8471 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8471 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8471 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8471 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Tahpanhes or Tahapanes or Tehaphnehes = "thou will fill hands with pity"
- a city in Egypt; modern 'Tel Defenneh' or 'Tel Defneh' located approx 18 miles (29 kilometers) east southeast from Tanis
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Egyptian city Je 43:7, 8, 9; 44:1; 46:14, so Je 2:16 Qr (Kt תחפנס); = תְּחַפְנְחֵס Ez 30:18; Ταφνα(ι)ς [Ταφναι]; identif. with Gk. Daphnae, mod. Tel Defenneh, c. 18 m. ESE. from Tanis, c. 9 m. W. of El-Ḳanṭara, BädEgypt, 5th ed. (1902), 169 Petrie Defenneh (Tanis II), 1888.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תַּחְפַּנְחֵס
- (b. h.) pr. n. pl. Tahpanhes, Tahpenes in Egypt (Daphnæ in Pelusium). Targ. Is. XXX, 4 (h. text חנס). Targ. Jer. XLIV, 1; a. e.—Pesik. Vayhi, p. 63ᵇ ת׳ זו חונפנייס (not תנפנחס) T., that is Ḥunpanias (?); Pesik. R. s. 17 תחפנס חופיינס(?).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H8471 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 43:9 | 1 |
| בְּ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֖ס | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 43:8 | 1 |
| ו/תחפנס | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 2:16 | 1 |
| וְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 2:16 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 46:14 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/תַחְפַּנְחֵ֣ס | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 44:1 | 1 |
| וּ/בִֽ/תְחַפְנְחֵס֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 30:18 | 1 |
| תַּחְפַּנְחֵֽס | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 43:7 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
