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תִּמְנִי

Timnite

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Timnite’ fuller range ↓

H8554 Strong's Hebrew
Timnîy Transliteration
/tim-nee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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About this entry

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“Timnite” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name תמני (Timnîy). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in Judges, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Judges 15:6. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Timnite
Modern gloss
Timnite
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H8554 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Judges 15:6
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Judges 15:6.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 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: Timnite 1×
  • American Standard Version: -law of the timnite 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Timnite 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Timnite 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H8554 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Timnite” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H8554 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “-law of the timnite” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H8554 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Timnite” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H8554 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Timnite” 1×

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.

  1. Timnite = "thou wilt number: a portion"
  2. an inhabitant of Timnath or Timnah or Thimnathah

Word origin

Derived from תמנה (Timnâh) (H8553) — Timnah.

Part of speech: Adjective


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.

תַּמְנֵי

  • = h. שְׁמֹנָה, eight. Targ. Gen. V, 4; 7. Targ. Ps. XII, 1 (ed. Wil. דתַמְנַיָא, corr. acc.); a. fr.—Ber. 4ᵇ ת׳ אפין (or אלפין) the eightfold acrosticon (Ps. CXIX). Y. Dem. V, 24ᵈ top תּוּמַ׳ מן דתו׳ וכ׳, v. מָנְפּוֹל; a. fr.—Pl. תַּמְנַן, תְּמָנָן; תְּמָנִין, תּוּמְ׳ eighty. Targ. Gen. V, 25, sq.; a. fr.—Y. Snh. VI, 23ᶜ bot. תומ׳ נשיא eighty women; ת׳ גוברין eighty men; T. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ bot.; a. e.—תַּמְנֵיסַר, תַּמְנֵיסְרֵי, תְּמַנְתְּ עֲשׂר eighteen. Targ. Gen. XIV, 14 (O. ed. Lsb. תְּמַנְיַת; ed. Vien. תְּמָנַת). Targ. Y. Deut. XVII, 17. Targ. Y. Num. XIX, 3; a. fr.—תַּמְנִיסְרָאָה the eighteenth. Targ. I Chr. XXIV, 15.

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.


Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8554, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Proper names from this root

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Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Timnite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

A man of Timnah. Samson's father-in-law is so styled (Judg. 15:6).

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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