Place

Timnah

딤나

The place Genesis 38:12 names: Judah “went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.” At 38:13 Tamar is told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” At 38:14 she sits in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. At Judges 14:1–2 Samson goes down to Timnah and sees a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines, and comes up and tells his father and his mother to get her for him as his wife; at 14:5 Samson goes down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and comes to the vineyards of Timnah, and a young lion roars at him.

Directly connected entries 3

Direct relationships 3

Open in the full graph

Collected relationship evidence

Source-backed narrative relations; not independent historical verification. Legacy dates and coordinates are outside this review.

Collection & rights

Source evidence (3)

AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.

GEN 38:1–23, engwebp
¹At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
²There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
³She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
⁴She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
⁵She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
⁶Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
⁷Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight. So the LORD killed him.
⁸Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
⁹Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
¹⁰The thing which he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, and he killed him also.
¹¹Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
¹²After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
¹³Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
¹⁴She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
¹⁵When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
¹⁶He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
¹⁷He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”
¹⁸He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
¹⁹She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
²⁰Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.
²¹Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
²²He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
²³Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”
Publisher text Rights & provenance
JDG 14:1–4, engwebp
¹Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
²He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
³Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
⁴But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
Publisher text Rights & provenance
JDG 14:5–9, engwebp
⁵Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
⁶The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.
⁷He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
⁸After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
⁹He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
Publisher text Rights & provenance

AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-26

Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.

Geographic sources & candidates

Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Timnah 1” by name and 5 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Tel Batash (confidence 836 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Tel Batash
OpenBible.info confidence 836 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.78483, 34.9103
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Timnah 1” (CC BY 4.0)

Original editorial notes; linked source texts retain their own rights. Candidate lists are not exhaustive.

All 3 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending

Narrated location (3) — Judah’s household, and Tamar sitting by the way, Samson tells his father and his mother to get him the woman he saw in Timnah as his wife, Samson tears a young lion, and later takes honey out of the lion’s body

A relationship with an event rests on the passages the event cites: each event’s page has them.

Verses tagged with this entry

Names in the World English Bible text that carry this entry’s tag. They are carried over from the tags on the Korean Revised Version, which are matched by name inside chapters that already have collected evidence, and a verse where the English says “he” carries none. All await human review. They are a separate list from the source passages above. An empty list does not mean the entry is absent from the text.

6 verses

Genesis 38:12 Open that verse

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

Genesis 38:13 Open that verse

Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

Genesis 38:14 Open that verse

She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

Judges 14:1 Open that verse

Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

Judges 14:2 Open that verse

He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”

Judges 14:5 Open that verse

Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.

Something looks wrong in this entry?

This prepares a report carrying the entry, what it currently says and what it cites, so a reviewer can act on it. The form for sending it is not open yet, so for now the report can only be copied.

What looks wrong

Write what looks wrong first; a report without it cannot be acted on.

This is exactly what gets copied or sent:

[Bibliadatum entry report]

Entry: Timnah (place-timnah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/timnah
Current wording: The place Genesis 38:12 names: Judah “went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.” At 38:13 Tamar is told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” At 38:14 she sits in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. At Judges 14:1–2 Samson goes down to Timnah and sees a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines, and comes up and tells his father and his mother to get her for him as his wife; at 14:5 Samson goes down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and comes to the vineyards of Timnah, and a young lion roars at him.
Cited evidence: GEN 38:1–23, engwebp / JDG 14:1–4, engwebp / JDG 14:5–9, engwebp
Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending

What looks wrong:
(not written yet)

---
This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.