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Strong's #8607 - תִּפְסַח

Transliteration
Tiphçach
Phonetics
tif-sakh'
Root Word (Etymology)
from (H6452)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Location
TWOT
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Tiphsah = “cross over”

1) a place at the northeast limit of Solomon’s empire; located on the Euphrates river

2) a place in the northern kingdom of Israel which king Menahem attacked and where he ripped open all the pregnant women

2a) might be the same as 1

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (2)
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
NAS (2)
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
HCS (2)
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
BSB (2)
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
ESV (2)
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
WEB (2)
1 Kings 1
2 Kings 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 תִּפְסַח proper name, of a location on Euphrates (probably ford (though Lag BN 131doubts); Lewy Fremdw. 146 compare Αάμψακος (on Bosphorus), explanation as לַמֶּסַח); — 1 Kings 5:4, northeast limit of Solomon's dominion; = Gk Θάψακος Xen Anab. i. 4etc.; identification with Kal' at Dibse, at the great easterly bend of the river, approximately Latitude 35° 55' north, Longitude 38° 20' east, JPPeters Nation, May 23,1889: Nippur i.96 ff.


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

תִּפְסַח (“passage,” “crossing,” from the root פָּסַח), [Tiphsah], pr.n. Thapsacus, a large and opulent city on the western bank of the Euphrates, situated at the bridge by which the Euphrates was usually crossed (see Xenoph. Anab. i. 4; Arrian, Exped. Alex. ii. 13; iii. 7; Strabo, xvi. p. 1082); 1 Kings 5:4 nor is any other Thapsacus to be understood, 2 Kings 15:16.


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List of Word Forms
מִתִּפְסַח֙ מתפסח תִּפְסַ֨ח תפסח mit·tip̄·saḥ mittifSach mittip̄saḥ tifSach tip̄·saḥ tip̄saḥ
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