תַּחְפַּנְחֵס
Tahpanhes
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Tahpanhes’ fuller range ↓
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 in the Book of Ezekiel — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Ezekiel
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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
