Timnath: meaning of the name

Timnath in Hebrew and Greek

Timnath in Scripture

“Timnath” appears in 9 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 38:12

  And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

• Genesis 38:13

  And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

• Genesis 38:14

  And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

• Joshua 19:50

  According to the word of the Lord they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath–serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

• Joshua 24:30

  And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

• Judges 2:9

  And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

• Judges 14:1

  And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

• Judges 14:2

  And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.