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Strong's #8656 - תִּרְצָה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- Tirzah = "favourable"
- n pr f
- one of the 7 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of Manasseh
- n pr loc
- one of the kingdoms on the west of the Jordan conquered by Joshua and the Israelites
- a Canaanite city, later capital of the northern kingdom of Israel
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did not use
this Strong's Number
of a location ( pleasure, beauty); —
1. feminine daughter of Selophehad of Gilead Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11; Joshua 17:3; Θερσα.
2. location old Canaanite city Joshua 12:24, early cap. of Northern Israel (until Omri) 1 Kings 14:17 (תִּרְצָ֫תָה), 1 Kings 15:21,33; 1 Kings 16:6,8,9 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 16:15,17,23, Θαρσα, usually Θερσα; Menahem's base of operations 2 Kings 15:14,16 (Θαρς(ε)ιλα 2 Kings 15:14, Euseb Onom. 263,62, ed. Lag compare Θαρσιλα, village of Samaritans in Batanea, and Buhl Geogr. 247 conjecture Tesîl, 20 miles east of Lake Gennesaret, but this too remote); in simile of beauty (omitted by ᵐ5) Song of Solomon 6:4 ("" יְרוּשָׁלַם); — site not certain; conjectured are: Tallûza, just north of Mt. Ebal (Rob BR iii. 302f.), Tayaƒir, approximately 10 miles further northeast, > e‰-ˆîre, south of Gerizim (see, on these, GASm Geogr. 355 Buhl Geogr. 203 Aglen Hast. DB. under the word).
תִּרְצָה (“pleasantness”), [Tirzah], pr.n. of a city of the Israelites, situated in a pleasant region (Song of Solomon 6:4), which was the seat of the kingdom, from Jeroboam to Omri, Joshua 12:24; 1 Kings 14:17, 15:21 2 Kings 15:14.
