Ṭalmôwn — H2929

Definition

masculine proper noun

Talmon, a temple doorkeeper

1. Talmon = "oppressor"
2. the head of a family of doorkeepers in the temple; some of his descendants returned from exile with Zerubbabel and were employed in their hereditary office in the days of Nehemiah and Ezra
1. possibly two other doorkeepers in the time of Nehemiah

Usually translated as

Talmon

Origin

from the same as H2728; oppressive

• Same as Chârᵉgôl (H2728)

Occurrences

Ṭalmôwn occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (3)

• 1 Chronicles 9:17 — And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon (וְטַלְמֹ֖ן), and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
• Ezra 2:42 — The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon (טַלְמ֣וֹן), the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
• Nehemiah 7:45 — The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon (טַלְמֹ֣ן), the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
• Nehemiah 11:19 — Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon (טַלְמ֔וֹן), and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
• Nehemiah 12:25 — Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon (טַלְמ֣וֹן), Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.