Tirʻâthîy — H8654

Definition

masculine proper noun

a Tirathite or inhabitant of an unknown Tirah

1. Tirathites = "men of the gate"
2. one of the 3 families of Kenite scribes living at Jabez

Usually translated as

Tirathite

Origin

patrial from an unused name meaning gate

Occurrences

Tirʻâthîy occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (1)

• 1 Chronicles 2:55 — And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites (תִּרְעָתִ֥ים), the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.