Place
Timnah
Approximate location. The area is clear, but the exact site is not.
A town on the border of Judah and the Philistine plain. Tamar met Judah on the road to Timnath, and Samson went down to Timnath to marry a Philistine woman. The two stories may refer to different towns of the same name.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Judah, Genesis 38:12
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
- Samson, Judges 14:1
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).