Tirzah: meaning of the name

Tirzah in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Tirzah in the Bible

• Tirzah, daughter of Zelophehad

  5 verses · first mentioned in Numbers 26:33 · Tribe of Joseph

Places named Tirzah

• Tirzah

Tirzah in Scripture

“Tirzah” appears in 17 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Numbers 26:33

  And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 27:1

  Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 36:11

  For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

• Joshua 12:24

  The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

• Joshua 17:3

  But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• 1 Kings 14:17

  And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

• 1 Kings 15:21

  And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

• 1 Kings 15:33

  In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.