H2929: טַלְמוֹן
Ṭalmôwn · pronounced tal-mone' · “Talmon”
Definition
Talmon, a temple doorkeeper
KJV translates it as: Talmon.
Word origin: from the same as H2728 (חָרְגֹּל); oppressive;
Extended definition
§ Talmon = "oppressor"
1) the head of a family of doorkeepers in the temple; some of his descendants returned from exile with Zerubbabel and were employed in their hereditary office in the days of Nehemiah and Ezra
1a) possibly two other doorkeepers in the time of Nehemiah
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2929 is translated
- talmon ×5
Bible verses with H2929 (Ṭalmôwn)
Ṭalmôwn appears in 5 verses.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17
And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
- Ezra 2:42
The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
- Nehemiah 7:45
The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
- Nehemiah 11:19
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
- Nehemiah 12:25
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.