Tirtsâh — H8656

Definition

feminine proper noun

Tirtsah, a place in Palestine; also an Israelitess

1. Tirzah = "favourable"
2. n pr f
3. one of the 7 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of Manasseh
4. n pr loc
5. one of the kingdoms on the west of the Jordan conquered by Joshua and the Israelites
6. a Canaanite city, later capital of the northern kingdom of Israel

Usually translated as

Tirzah

Origin

from H7521; delightsomeness

• Derived from Râtsâh (H7521)

Occurrences

Tirtsâh occurs 18 times in 17 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (3), Joshua (2), 1 Kings (9), 2 Kings (2), Song of Songs (1)

• Numbers 26:33 — 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 (וְתִרְצָֽה).
• Numbers 27:1 — Then 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 (וְתִרְצָֽה).
• Numbers 36:11 — For Mahlah, Tirzah (תִרְצָ֗ה), and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
• Joshua 12:24 — The king of Tirzah (תִּרְצָ֖ה), one: all the kings thirty and one.
• Joshua 17:3 — But 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 (וְתִרְצָֽה).
• 1 Kings 14:17 — And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah (תִרְצָ֑תָה): and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
• 1 Kings 15:21 — And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah (בְּתִרְצָֽה).
• 1 Kings 15:33 — In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah (בְּתִרְצָ֔ה), twenty and four years.
• 1 Kings 16:6 — So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah (בְּתִרְצָ֑ה): and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
• 1 Kings 16:8 — In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah (בְּתִרְצָ֖ה), two years.
• 1 Kings 16:9 — And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah (בְתִרְצָה֙), drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 16:9 — And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah (בְּתִרְצָֽה).
• 1 Kings 16:15 — In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah (בְּתִרְצָ֑ה). And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
• 1 Kings 16:17 — And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah (תִּרְצָֽה).
• 1 Kings 16:23 — In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah (בְּתִרְצָ֖ה).
• 2 Kings 15:14 — For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah (מִתִּרְצָ֗ה), and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
• 2 Kings 15:16 — Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah (מִתִּרְצָ֔ה): because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
• Song of Songs 6:4 — Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah (כְּתִרְצָ֔ה), comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.