(Hebrews topheth) “tabret” should be, as in the Revised Version, “an open
abhorring” (marg., “one in whose face they spit;” lit., “a spitting in the
face”).
- TABRIMON good is Rimmon, the father of Benhadad, king of Syria (1
Kings 15:18). - TACHES hooks or clasps by which the tabernacle curtains were
connected (Exodus 26:6, 11, 33; 35:11). - TACHMONITE =Hach’monite, a name given to Jashobeam (2 Samuel
23:8; comp. 1 Chronicles 11:11). - TACKLING (Isaiah 33:23), the ropes attached to the mast of a ship. In
Acts 27:19 this word means generally the furniture of the ship or the
“gear” (27:17), all that could be removed from the ship. - TADMOR palm, a city built by Solomon “in the wilderness” (2
Chronicles 8:4). In 1 Kings 9:18, where the word occurs in the Authorized
Version, the Hebrew text and the Revised Version read “Tamar,” which is
properly a city on the southern border of Palestine and toward the
wilderness (comp. Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28). In 2 Chronicles 8:14 Tadmor is
mentioned in connection with Hamath-zobah. It is called Palmyra by the
Greeks and Romans. It stood in the great Syrian wilderness, 176 miles
from Damascus and 130 from the Mediterranean and was the centre of a
vast commercial traffic with Western Asia. It was also an important
military station. (See SOLOMON.) “Remains of ancient temples and
palaces, surrounded by splendid colonnades of white marble, many of
which are yet standing, and thousands of prostrate pillars, scattered over a
large extent of space, attest the ancient magnificence of this city of palms,
surpassing that of the renowned cities of Greece and Rome.” - TAHAPANES =Tahpanhes=Tehaphnehes, (called “Daphne” by the
Greeks, now Tell Defenneh), an ancient Egyptian city, on the Tanitic
branch of the Nile, about 16 miles from Pelusium. The Jews from
Jerusalem fled to this place after the death of Gedaliah (q.v.), and settled
there for a time (Jeremiah 2:16; 43:7; 44:1; 46:14). A platform of
brick-work, which there is every reason to believe was the pavement at the
entry of Pharaoh’s palace, has been discovered at this place. “Here,” says
the discoverer, Mr. Petrie, “the ceremony described by Jeremiah [43:8-10;
“brick-kiln”, i.e., pavement of brick] took place before the chiefs of the