at the time of the offering of the sacrifices, it was “a day of blowing of trumpets.” In addition to
the daily sacrifices and the eleven victims offered on the first of every month, there were offered
a young bullock, a ram and seven lambs of the first year, with the accustomed meat offerings, and
a kid for a sin offering. (Numbers 29:1-6) The regular monthly offering was thus repeated, with
the exception of the young bullock. It has been conjectured that (Psalms 81:1) ... one of the songs
of Asaph, was composed expressly for the Feast of Trumpets. The psalm is used in the service for
the day by the modern Jews. Various meanings have been assigned to the Feast of Trumpets; but
there seems to be no sufficient reason to call in question the common opinion of Jews and Christians,
that if was the festival of the New Year’s day of the civil year, the first of Tisri, the month which
commenced the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee.
Tryphena
and Trypho’sa (luxurious), two Christian women at Rome, enumerated in the conclusion of St.
Paul’s letter. (Romans 16:12) (A.D. 55.) They may have been sisters, but it is more likely that they
were fellow deaconesses. We know nothing more of these two sister workers of the apostolic time.
Tryphon
A usurper of the Syrian throne. His proper name was Diodotus, and the surname Tryphon was
given to him or adopted by him after his secession to power. He was a native of Cariana. 1 Macc.
11:39, 12:39-50, etc. “Tryphon, by treason and successive wars, gained supreme power, killed
Antiochus and assumed the throne. “The coins bear his head as Antiochus and Trypho.”
Tryphosa
[Tryphena]
Tubal
is reckoned with Javan and Meshech among the sons of Japheth. (Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles
1:5) The three are again associated in the enumeration of the sources of the wealth of Tyre. (Ezekiel
27:13) Tubal and Javan, (Isaiah 68:19) Meshech and Tubal, (Ezekiel 32:26; 38:2,3; 39:1) are nations
of the north. (Ezekiel 38:15; 39:2) Josephus identified the descendants of Tubal with the Iberians,
that is, the inhabitants of a tract of country between the Caspian and Euxine Seas, which nearly
corresponded to the modern Georgia.
Tubalcain
the son of Lamech the Cainite by his wife Zillah, (Genesis 4:22) (B.C. about 3000.) He is called
“a furbisher of every cutting instrument of copper and iron.”
Turpentine Tree
occurs only once, via. in the Apocrypha. Ecclus. 24:16. It is the Pistacia terebinthus, terebinth
tree, common in Palestine and the East. The terebinth occasionally grows to a large size. It belongs
to the natural order Anacurdiaceas, the plants of which order generally contain resinous secretions.
Turtle, Turtledove
Turtur auritus (Heb. tor). The name is phonetic, evidently derived from the plaintive cooing of
the bird. It is one of the smaller members of the group of birds which ornithologists usually call
pigeons. The turtle-dove occurs first in Scripture in (Genesis 15:9) In the Levitical law a pair of
turtle-doves or of young pigeons are constantly prescribed as a substitute for those who were too
poor to provide a lamb or a kid. The offering of two young pigeons must have been one easily
within the reach of the poorest. The admission of a pair of turtle-doves was perhaps a yet further
concession to extreme poverty, for they were extremely numerous, and their young might easily
be found and captured by those who did not possess pigeons. In the valley of the Jordan, an allied
frankie
(Frankie)
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