Tim´nuh; alternately Timnath, Timnatha; Gk. Thamnath
1 A town in the southern hill country where Judah pastured sheep (Gen 38:12-14); perhaps to be identified with the Timnah in the seventh district of Judah (Josh 15:57). 2 A town on the northern border of Judah, between Beth-shemesh and Ekron (Josh 15:10), now generally identified with modern Tell-el-Batashi, in the Sorek Valley in the western part of south-central Palestine. Once assigned to Dan (Josh 19:43), it was Philistine territory at the time Samson married a woman from there (Judg 14:1-5). It fell again to the Philistines in the time of Ahaz (2Chr 28:18) and was captured by Sennacherib in 701 BCE.3 A town in the hill country of Ephraim, fortified in 160 BCE by the Seleucid general Bacchides (1Macc 9:50).
