Tahpenes

Tahpenes in the Topics

The wife of Pharaoh, who gave her sister in marriage to Hadad the Edomite (1 Kgs 11:19, 1 Kgs 11:20).

Named in the Bible

2 verses

  • 1 Kings 11:19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
  • 1 Kings 11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.