Timnath-heres
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Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah (), later Thamna, was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him "at the order of the Lord". He built up the town and lived in it ().
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Vinony's link graph records 104 inbound references to Timnath-heres, and connects out to Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, William F. Albright and Claude Reignier Conder.
The entry is geolocated on the map in PS, across 6 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Archaeological sites in Samaria, Archaeological sites in the West Bank and Book of Joshua locations.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Khirbet Tibnah, West Bank
- Ancient site.map_type
- West Bank
- Ancient site.map_size
- 100
- Ancient site.location
- West Bank
- Ancient site.region
- Salfit Governorate
- Ancient site.grid_position
- 16035/15725 PAL
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Location
- Kifl Hares
- Khirbet Tibnah
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah (), later Thamna, was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him "at the order of the Lord". He built up the town and lived in it ().
According to the Septuagint version of the Book of Joshua, Joshua placed there "the stone knives, with which he had circumcised the children of Israel".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Timnath-heres” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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