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Strong's #8656 - תִּרְצָה
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Tirzah = “favourable”
1) one of the 7 daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher of the tribe of Manasseh (noun proper feminine)
2) one of the kingdoms on the west of the Jordan conquered by Joshua and the Israelites (noun proper locative)
3) a Canaanite city, later capital of the northern kingdom of Israel (noun proper locative)
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of a location ( pleasure, beauty); —
1. feminine daughter of Selophehad of Gilead Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11; Joshua 17:3; Θερσα.
2. location old Canaanite city Joshua 12:24, early cap. of Northern Israel (until Omri) 1 Kings 14:17 (תִּרְצָ֫תָה), 1 Kings 15:21,33; 1 Kings 16:6,8,9 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 16:15,17,23, Θαρσα, usually Θερσα; Menahem's base of operations 2 Kings 15:14,16 (Θαρς(ε)ιλα 2 Kings 15:14, Euseb Onom. 263,62, ed. Lag compare Θαρσιλα, village of Samaritans in Batanea, and Buhl Geogr. 247 conjecture Tesîl, 20 miles east of Lake Gennesaret, but this too remote); in simile of beauty (omitted by ᵐ5) Song of Solomon 6:4 ("" יְרוּשָׁלַם); — site not certain; conjectured are: Tallûza, just north of Mt. Ebal (Rob BR iii. 302f.), Tayaƒir, approximately 10 miles further northeast, > e‰-ˆîre, south of Gerizim (see, on these, GASm Geogr. 355 Buhl Geogr. 203 Aglen Hast. DB. under the word).
תִּרְצָה (“pleasantness”), [Tirzah], pr.n. of a city of the Israelites, situated in a pleasant region (Song of Solomon 6:4), which was the seat of the kingdom, from Jeroboam to Omri, Joshua 12:24; 1 Kings 14:17, 15:21 2 Kings 15:14.
