Tirzah
תִּרְצָהStrong’s H8656tirtsah (tir-tsah)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tirtsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “tirzah”, “from tirzah” and “tirzah towards”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.”
Meaning
- One of the 7 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of Manasseh
- 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
- § Tirzah = "favourable"
How it's translated
- in tirzah 8
- and tirzah 3
- tirzah 3
- from tirzah 2
- tirzah towards 1
- like tirzah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 9
- Numbers 3
- Joshua 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Song of Solomon 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 27:1Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
- Numbers 36:11For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
- Joshua 12:24The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
- Joshua 17:3But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 14:17And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
- 1 Kings 15:21And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
Hebrew dictionary
תִּרְצָה tirtsah · Tirzah
A woman of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.26.33; daughter of: Zelophehad (H6765); sister of: Mahlah (H4244), Noah (H5270), Hoglah (H2295) and Milcah (H4435H) § Tirzah = "favourable" 1) one of the 7 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of Manasseh 2) one of the kingdoms on the west of the Jordan conquered by Joshua and the Israelites 3) a Canaanite city, later capital of the northern kingdom of Israel
תִּרְצָה tirtsah · Tirzah
§ Tirzah = "favourable" 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.