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Tackling

Agriculture & Daily Life • New Testament
Tackling means the ropes, equipment, and other gear of a ship. In Paul’s voyage to Rome, the sailors threw much of the ship’s tackling overboard during the storm.

Tadmor

Places & Geography • Old Testament
Tadmor was a city built by Solomon in the wilderness, identified with Palmyra in Syria. It stood at an important location for caravan trade between the Mediterranean region and the lands beyond the Euphrates.

Tahan

People & Groups • Old Testament
Tahan was a descendant of Ephraim and an ancestor in the genealogical records of that tribe. He is also listed as a son of Telah.

Tahanites, The

People & Groups • Old Testament
The Tahanites were the descendants or clan of Tahan, an Ephraimite family mentioned in the wilderness census.

Tahapanes

Places & Geography • Old Testament
Tahapanes was another name for Tahpanhes, an Egyptian city near the eastern border of Lower Egypt. Jewish refugees settled there after the fall of Jerusalem, and Jeremiah delivered warnings there.

TAHASH

People & Groups • Old Testament
Tahash was a son of Nahor by his concubine Reumah. The name is also associated with a Hebrew term for a type of leather or the animal from which it came.

Tahath

Places & Geography • Old Testament
Tahath was a desert station on Israel’s wilderness journey, listed between Makheloth and Tarah. Its location has not been identified.

TAHCHEMONITE

People & Groups • Old Testament
The Tahchemonite was the family or clan designation of Jashobeam, one of David’s chief warriors. The parallel account in Chronicles calls him a Hachmonite.

TAHPANHES

Places & Geography • Old Testament
Tahpanhes was an important Egyptian city on the eastern frontier of Lower Egypt, near the route to Palestine. Jewish refugees fled there after Jerusalem’s destruction, and Jeremiah prophesied that Nebuchadnezzar would bring judgment upon Egypt and Tahpanhes.

Tahpanhes, Tehaphnehes, Tahapanes

Places & Geography • Old Testament
Tahpanhes, also called Tehaphnehes or Tahapanes, was an Egyptian city where Jewish fugitives settled after Gedaliah’s death. Jeremiah pronounced judgment there and hid stones at Pharaoh’s palace.

Tahpenes

People & Groups • Old Testament
Tahpenes was an Egyptian queen, wife of the Pharaoh who received Hadad the Edomite. She gave her sister in marriage to Hadad and helped raise their son Genubath.

Tahrea

People & Groups • Old Testament
Tahrea was a descendant of Gibeon, identified as the son of Micah and a descendant of Mephibosheth. He appears in the genealogical record of Benjamin.
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