תִּמְנַת חֶרֶס
Timnath-heres
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Timnath-heres’ 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 H8556 appears — 3 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.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 19:50 תִּמְנַת סֶ֖רַח n Proper n Proper according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived therein.
- Joshua 24:30 בְּ/תִמְנַת סֶ֖רַח prep + n Proper n Proper They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
Judges 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.
תמנת חרס — transliterated Timnath Chereç — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Timnath-heres.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Joshua (67% of all occurrences). Debuting at Joshua 19:50, it then recurs through the corpus. See 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8556 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 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 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Timnathserah 2×
- American Standard Version†: Timnath-heres 1×, Timnath-serah 1×, Timnathserah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Timnath-serah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Timnath serah 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8556 across 3† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8556 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8556 across 3† 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8556 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah = "portion of the sun"
- a city given to Joshua as a inheritance in the mountains of Ephraim on the north of the hill of Gaash where he was…
Word origin
תִּמְנַת חֶרֶס n.pr.loc. (prob. = (sacred) territory of the Sun ); in hill-country of Ephr., westward, Ju 2:9 = foll. [ m.cm.aj ]
תִּמְנַת סֶ֫רַח n.pr.loc. by metath. from foregoing [ m.cm.ai ], to avoid idolatr. suggestion
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תמנה (Timnâh) (H8553) — Timnah.
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.
חֶרֶס I
- חֶרֶשׂ; חרס to be rough; to scrape)
- 1. common earthware. כלי ח׳ earthen vessel. Kel. III, 1 (ed. Dehr. חרש); a. v. fr.—Ib. 4 היה בה ח׳ if there remained of it a (sound) piece large enough to contain &c.—Tanḥ. Sh’laḥ. 1 (ref. to חֶרֶשׁ, Josh. II, 1) קרי ביה ח׳ read it ḥeres (with earthware, in the disguise of potters); Num. R. s. 16, beg. חרשׂ; a. fr.—Esp. (v. חַסְפָּא) potsherd. Y. Ned. I, 37ᵃ top; Y. Naz. I, beg. 51ᵃ והתני … לא חספא did not Bar K. say, ḥeres is a substitute for ḥerem (חֵרֶם)? now, does not this mean a sherd (which has no reference to anything forbidden either as sacred or as doomed to destruction)?; v. next w.—Pl. חֲרָסִים, חֲרָסִין. Kel. III, 4. Ib. IX, 5 (Ar. חֲרָשִׂין); a. e.—Ḥag. 13ᵇ (expl. בזק, Ez. I, 14) כאור … מבין הח׳ like the flames from between the perforated earthen pieces (used in smelting gold). e.g. Joshua 2:1
חֶרֶס II
- חרס to glow; cmp. חָרָה) the sun. Men. 110ᵃ (ref. to Is. XIX, 18) מאי עיר הח׳ (late eds. הה׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) what is Ir ha-Ḥeres? קרתא דבית שמשא the city of Beth-Shemesh; מאי משמע דהאי ח׳ לישנא וכ׳ where is the evidence that ḥeres means sun? (Answ. ref. to Job IX, 7). Y. Ned. I, 37ᵃ top; Y. Naz. I, beg. 51ᵃ ח׳ לשון גבוה הוא ḥeres (as a substitute for חֵרֶם, v. preced.) has reference to Deity, (as we read) ‘who speaks to the sun’ (Job l. c.). e.g. Isaiah 19:18
חֶרֶס III
- cmp. preced. a. an eruption of the skin. Bekh. 41ᵃ גרב זה הח׳ garab (v. גָּרָב) is the same as ḥeres
חֲרַס
- Targ. O. Deut. XXVIII, 27 (Y. quot. in Ar. חַרְסוֹנָא, v. חִיכּוּכָא).
תִּמְנָת
- , v. תִּמְנָה
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 4 distinct written forms H8556 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/תִמְנַת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 24:30 | 2 |
| סֶ֖רַח | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:50 | 2 |
| חֶ֖רֶס | Noun, Proper | Judges 2:9 | 1 |
| תִּמְנַת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:50 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8556, 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
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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 (Timnath-heres). 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
Portion of the sun, where Joshua was buried (Judg. 2:9). It was "in the mount of Ephraim, in the north side of the hill Gaash," 10 miles south-west of Shechem. The same as the following.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(portion of the sun) the name under which the city and burial-place of Joshua, previously called Timnath-serah is mentioned in (Judges 2:9) [TIMNATH-GERAH]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
or Timnath-serah, image of the sun; numbering of the rest
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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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