Timnath-heres
Also known as Thamna
Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah (), later Thamna, was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him "at the order of the Lord". He built up the town and lived in it ().
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- Ancient site.name
- Khirbet Tibnah, West Bank
- Ancient site.map_type
- West Bank
- Ancient site.map_size
- 100
- Ancient site.location
- West Bank
- Ancient site.region
- Salfit Governorate
- Ancient site.grid_position
- 16035/15725 PAL
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- Etymology
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- Kifl Hares
- Khirbet Tibnah
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Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah (), later Thamna, was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him "at the order of the Lord". He built up the town and lived in it ().
According to the Septuagint version of the Book of Joshua, Joshua placed there "the stone knives, with which he had circumcised the children of Israel".
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