Bible Names

Talmai: meaning of the name

Talmai means “my furrow; that suspends the waters; heap of waters.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Talmai in Hebrew and Greek

תַּלְמַי H8526

Talmay (tal-mah'-ee) — Talmai, the name of a Canaanite and a Syrian

from H8525 (תֶּלֶם); ridged;

People named Talmai in the Bible

Talmai in Scripture

“Talmai” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 13:22

    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Joshua 15:14

    And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

  • Judges 1:10

    And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

  • 2 Samuel 3:3

    And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

  • 2 Samuel 13:37

    But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:2

    The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith: