(delay), a desert-station of the Israelites between Tahath and Mithcah. (Numbers 33:27)
Taralah
(reeling), one of the towns in the allotment of Benjamin. (Joshua 18:27)
Tarea
the same as Tahreah, the son of Micah. (1 Chronicles 8:35)
Tares
There can be little doubt that the zizania of the parable, (Matthew 13:25) denotes the weed
called “darnel” (Lolium temulentum). The darnel before it comes into ear is very similar in
appearance to wheat; hence the command that the zizania should be left to the harvest, lest while
men plucked up the tares “they should root up also the wheat with them.” Dr. Stanley, however,
speaks of women and children picking up from the wheat in the cornfields of Samaria the tall green
stalks, still called by the Arabs zuwan. “These stalks,” he continues, “if sown designedly throughout
the fields, would be inseparable from the wheat, from which, even when growing naturally and by
chance, they are at first sight hardly distinguishable.” See also Thomson (“The Land and the Book”
p. 420): “The grain is in just the proper stage to illustrate the parable. In those parts where the grain
has headed out, the tares have done the same, and then a child cannot mistake them for wheat or
barley; but where both are less developed, the closest scrutiny will often fail to detect them. Even
the farmers, who in this country generally weed their fields, do not attempt to separate the one from
the other.” The grains of the L. temulentum, if eaten, produce convulsions, and even death.
Targum
[See Versions, Ancient, Of The Old And New Testaments, Versions, Authorized]
Tarpelites, The
A race of Assyrian colonists who were planted int he cites of Samaria after the captivity of the
northern kingdom of Israel. (Ezra 4:9) They have not been identified with any certainty.
Tarshish
(established).
•Probably Tartessus, a city and emporium of the Phoenicians in the south of Spain, represented as
one of the sons of Javan. (Genesis 10:4; 1 Kings 10:22; 1 Chronicles 1:7; Psalms 48:7; Isaiah 2:16;
Jeremiah 10:9; Ezekiel 27:12,25; Jonah 1:3; 4:2) The identity of the two places is rendered highly
probable by the following circumstances: 1st. There is a very close similarity of name between
them, Tartessus being merely Tarshish in the Aramaic form. 2nd. There seems to have been a
special relation between Tarshish and Tyre, as there was at one time between Tartessus and
Phoenicians. 3rd. The articles which Tarshish is stated by the prophet Ezekiel, (Ezekiel 27:12) to
have supplied to Tyre are precisely such as we know, through classical writers, to have been
productions of the Spanish peninsula. In regard to tin, the trade of Tarshish in this metal is peculiarly
significant, and, taken in conjunction with similarity of name and other circumstances already
mentioned, is reasonably conclusive as to its identity with Tartessus. For even not when countries
in Europe or on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea where tin is found are very few; and in
reference to ancient times, it would be difficult to name any such countries except Iberia or Spain,
Lusitania, which was somewhat less in extent than Portugal, and Cornwall in Great Britain. In the
absence of positive proof, we may acquiesce in the statement of Strabo, that the river Baetis (now
the Guadalquivir) was formerly called Tartessus, that the city Tartessus was situated between the
two arms by which the river flowed into the sea, and that the adjoining country was called Tartessis.
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