Timnah

Identified as

Tel Batash

Certainty

Likely (84% of scholarship) · 1 other possible location

Coordinates

31.785° N, 34.910° E

Timnah (Place)· Timnite

• תִּמְנָה·Timnah
• תִּמְנִי·Timnites

Includes 1 verse that refer to Timnah without naming it.

1. Genesis 38:12תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
2. Genesis 38:13תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
3. Genesis 38:14תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   …she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
4. Joshua 15:10תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
5. Joshua 19:43תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
6. Judges 14:1תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
7. Judges 14:2תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
8. Judges 14:5תִּמְנָה · Timnah
   Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
9. Judges 14:11Referred to, not named
   And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.
10. Judges 15:6תִּמְנִי · Timnites
    “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
11. 2 Chronicles 28:18תִּמְנָה · Timnah
    The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.