Timnath
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Timnath in the Bible Dictionary
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1. A city given by some authorities as identical with TIMNAH, number two
Gen 38:12–14
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. 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. 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.
Genesis 38:12 -
2. Home of Samson’s wife
Judg 14:1, 2, 5; 15:6
1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges 14:12 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.
Judges 14:25 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
Judges 14:56 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges 15:6 - Believed by some authorities to be identical with the preceding
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
