תִּרְצָה

tir.tsahTirzah
hebrewOld TestamentName of a woman18 occurrences5 books17 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Tirzah: Daughter of Zelophehad, granted inheritance rights
  • Tirzah: Canaanite city that became the capital of Israel

Definition

from H7521; delightsomeness; Tirtsah, a place in Palestine; also an Israelitess
Traditional renderings: Tirzah.

Glossary entries

Tirzah (Place) Tirzah (Person)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

18 total
  1. Numbers 26:33וְתִרְצָֽה׃ · and Tirzah
    Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
  2. Numbers 27:1וְתִרְצָֽה׃ · and Tirzah
    Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached
  3. Numbers 36:11תִרְצָ֗ה · Tirzah
    Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side.
  4. Joshua 12:24תִּרְצָ֖ה · of Tirzah
    …and the king of Tirzah, one. So there were thirty-one kings in all.
  5. Joshua 17:3וְתִרְצָֽה׃ · and Tirzah
    But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
  6. 1 Kings 14:17תִרְצָ֑תָה · Tirzah
    Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
  7. 1 Kings 15:21בְּתִרְצָֽה׃ · to Tirzah
    When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.
  8. 1 Kings 15:33בְּתִרְצָ֔ה · and he reigned in Tirzah
    In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.
  9. 1 Kings 16:6בְּתִרְצָ֑ה · in Tirzah
    And Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah reigned in his place.
  10. 1 Kings 16:8בְּתִרְצָ֖ה · and he reigned in Tirzah
    In the twenty-sixth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah two years.
  11. 1 Kings 16:9 (2×)בְתִרְצָה֙ · was in Tirzah; בְּתִרְצָֽה׃ · [there]
    However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
  12. 1 Kings 16:15בְּתִרְצָ֑ה · in Tirzah
    In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines,
  13. 1 Kings 16:17תִּרְצָֽה׃ · Tirzah
    Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
  14. 1 Kings 16:23בְּתִרְצָ֖ה · in Tirzah
    In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.
  15. 2 Kings 15:14מִתִּרְצָ֗ה · from Tirzah
    Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.
  16. 2 Kings 15:16מִתִּרְצָ֔ה · starting from Tirzah
    At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
  17. Song of Solomon 6:4כְּתִרְצָ֔ה · as Tirzah
    You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.