Bible Names

Tanhumeth: meaning of the name

Tanhumeth means “consolation; repentance.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tanhumeth in Hebrew and Greek

תַּנְחֻמֶת H8576

Tanchumeth (tan-khoo'-meth) — Tanchumeth, an Israelite

for H8575 (תַּנְחוּם) (feminine);

Who named Tanhumeth in the Bible

Tanhumeth in Scripture

“Tanhumeth” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 25:23

    And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

  • Jeremiah 40:8

    Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.