Bible Names

Tappuah: meaning of the name

Tappuah means “apple; swelling.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tappuah in Hebrew and Greek

תַּפּוּחַ H8599

Tappûwach (tap-poo'-akh) — Tappuach, the name of two places in Palestine, also of an Israelite

the same as H8598 (תַּפּוּחַ);

Who named Tappuah in the Bible

Places named Tappuah

Tappuah in Scripture

“Tappuah” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 12:17

    The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

  • Joshua 15:34

    And Zanoah, and En–gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

  • Joshua 16:8

    The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

  • Joshua 17:8

    Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;

  • 1 Chronicles 2:43

    And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.