תִּרְצָהTirtsâh
proper name, feminine: pleasure, beauty
Pronunciation: teer-tsaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8656
Meanings
1. daughter of Selophehad of Gilead (Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11)
2. old Canaanite city, early capital of Northern Israel (until Omri) (Joshua 12:24; 1 Kings 14:17; 1 Kings 15:21)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 18 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 26:33 (One of Hepher’s descendants, Zelophehad, had no sons, but his daughters’ names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.)
- Numbers 27:1 One day a petition was presented by the daughters of Zelophehad—Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Their father, Zelophehad, was a descendant of Hepher son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, son of Joseph.
- Numbers 36:11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah all married cousins on their father’s side.
- Joshua 12:24 The king of Tirzah. In all, thirty-one kings were defeated.
- Joshua 17:3 However, Zelophehad, a descendant of Hepher son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons. He had only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife returned to Tirzah, and the child died just as she walked through the door of her home.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).