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Christian Classics Ethereal Library letter T or Smith's Bible Dictionary letter T or Easton's Bible Dictionary letter T for additional definitions and Biblical sources. Most of the men's and women's biblical names can be found in Herbert Lockyer's books with a biblical source where in the bible they can be found. Many also have a short study on the name. Most of the Biblical name definitions for places, cities, countries, angels, gods, mountains and Hebrew names can be found in Nancy M. Tischler's two volume encyclopedia All things in the Bible, an encyclopedia of the biblical world with a short study on each of them.

• Taanach
  Taanach
  Ta'anakh or Taanach is a small village in Israel in Ta'anakh region.Just to the east is a 40 metre high moun which was the site of the biblical city Taanach. 12 Akkadian cuneiform tablets were found here. The main remain visible today is a 11th Century Abbasid palace....
  
  , who humbles thee; who answers thee
• Taanach-shilo, breaking down a fig-tree
• Tabbath, good; goodness
• Tabbaoth, rings
• Tabeal, Tabeel, good God
• Tabelel, God is good
• Taberah
  Taberah
  Taberah is one of the locations at which, according to the Book of Numbers, the Israelites passed through during their Exodus journey. The biblical narrative states that the place received its name, which means burning, because Yahweh had set fire to the Israelites there, as vengeance against...
  
  , burning
• Tabering, to beat with loud strokes
• Tabitha
  Dorcas
  Dorcas was a disciple who lived in Joppa, referenced in the Book of Acts of the Bible. Acts recounts that when she died, she was mourned by "all the widows ... crying and showing the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them."...
  
  , gazelle
• Tabor
  Mount Tabor
  -Places:*Mount Tabor, a hill in Israel near Nazareth believed by many to be the site of the Transfiguration of ChristIn the United States:*Mount Tabor, Indiana, an unincorporated community...
  
  , choice; purity; bruising
• Tabrimon, good pomegranate; the navel; the middle
• Tadmor, the palm-tree; bitterness
• Tahan, beseeching; merciful
• Tahapenes, secret temptation
• Tahath
  Tahath
  Tahath is one of the places the Israelites stopped at during the Exodus. It is referenced in Numbers 33: 26, 27. Its name means below. It is also a character reference in 1 Chronicles 6:24 as the son of Assir and the father of Uriel, Also a descendant of Ephraim in 1 Chronicles 7:20....
  
  , fear; going down
• Tahpenes
  Tahpenes
  Tahpenes is an Egyptian queen mentioned in the Book of Kings in the Bible. She appears in 1 Kings 11:19, where Hadad the Edomite is awarded by the Egyptian Pharaoh with Tahpenes' sister in marriage. Tahpenes weaned Hadad and her sister's son Genubath and was raised in the Pharaoh's household....
  
  , standard; flight; temptation
• Tahrea, anger; wicked contention
• Talitha-cumi, young woman, arise
• Talmai
  Talmai
  Talmai is a name in the Bible referring to a number of minor people. Its Aramaic version was connected to the Greek Ptolemy , and, later, to the Italian Bartolomeo, English Bartholomew etc....
  
  , my furrow; that suspends the waters; heap of waters
• Tamah, blotting or wiping out; smiting
• Tamar
  Tamar (name)
  Tamar is a female name of Hebrew origin, meaning "date" , "date palm" or just "palm tree". There are two characters in the Bible with this name, see Tamar . Variants include "Tamara" and "Tamera"...
  
  , date palm; date-tree erect
• Tammuz, abstruse; concealed; consumed
• Tanhumeth, consolation; repentance
• Taphath, distillation; drop
• Tappuah, apple; swelling
• Tarah, a hair; a wretch; one banished
• Taralah, searching out slander, or strength
• Tarea, howling; doing evil
• Tarpelites, ravishers; succession of miracles
• Tarshish
  Tarshish
  Tarshish תַּרְשִׁישׁ occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings:*One of the sons of Javan .* In the Bible Solomon set up a trade with Tarshish and received ivory, apes, and peacocks from Tarshish which are all native to the jungles in India. India's state bird for example is the...
  
  , contemplation; examination
• Tarsus
  Tarsus, Mersin
  Tarsus is a historic city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey with a population of 2.75 million...
  
  , winged; feathered
• Tartak
  Tartak
  Tartak is a popular hip-hop/rapcore/alternative crossover band from Ukraine. They mix styles of guitar rock, hip-hop and dance music to produce an energetic compositions and lyrics.-History:...
  
  , chained; bound; shut up
• Tartan
  Tartan
  Tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns...
  
  , a general (official title)
• Tatnai, that gives; the overseer of the gifts and tributes
• Tebah, murder; butchery; guarding of the body; a cook
• Tebaliah, baptism, or goodness, of the Lord
• Tebeth, good, goodness (the tenth month of the Hebrews)
• Tehinnah, entreaty; a favor
• Tekel
  Tekel
  Tekel, is a Turkish tobacco company. It was nationalised in 1925 from a French company, the "Regie Compagnie interessee des tabacs de l'empire Ottoman". Tekel evolved into the sole manufacturer and distributor of all alcohol and tobacco products in Turkey...
  
  , weight
• Tekoa
  Tuqu'
  Tuquʿ is a Palestinian town in the Bethlehem Governorate, located 12 km southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , Tuqu' had a population of 8,881 in 2007.The town is a part of the 'Arab al-Ta'amira cluster, along with Za'atara, Beit...
  
  , trumpet; that is confirmed
• Telabib, a heap of new grain
• Telah, moistening; greenness
• Telassar
  Telassar
  Telassar is mentioned twice in the Bible. First at 2nd Kings 19:12 , and secondly at Isaiah 37:12....
  
  , taking away; heaping up
• Telem, their dew; their shadow
• Telharsa, suspension of the plow
• Tel-melah, heap of salt
• Tema
  Tema
  Tema is a city on the Atlantic coast of Ghana, lying east of the Ghanaian capital city, Accra, in the region of Greater Accra. As of 2005, Tema had a population of 209,000. The Greenwich Meridian passes directly through the city...
  
  , admiration; perfection; consummation
• Teman, Temani, the south; Africa; perfect
• Terah
  Terah
  Terah or Térach is a biblical figure in the book of Genesis, son of Nahor, son of Serug and father of the Patriarch Abraham, all descendants of Shem. He is mentioned in the Hebrew bible and the New Testament.-Genesis narrative:...
  
  , to breathe; scent; blow
• Teraphim
  Teraphim
  Teraphim is a Hebrew word from the Bible, found only in the plural, of uncertain etymology. Despite being plural, Teraphim may refer to singular objects, using the Hebrew plural of excellence...
  
  , images; idols
• Tertius
  Tertius
  Tertius is Latin word for "third", or "concerning the third".-In law:The term is used in contract law to refer to an interested third party not privy to a contract...
  
  , third
• Tertullus
  Tertullus
  In the Bible, Tertullus was a lawyer, who was employed by the Jews to state their case against Paul in the presence of Felix ....
  
  , third
• Tetrarch, governor of a fourth part
• Thaddeus, that praises or confesses
• Thahash, that makes haste; that keeps silence
• Thamah, that blots out; that suppresses
• Thamar
  Thamar
  Thamar Angelina Komnene was a member of the ruling house of the Despotate of Epirus and later Princess of Taranto as wife of Prince Philip I.-Family:...
  
  , fruit, outcome
• Tharah, same as Terah
• Thebez, muddy; eggs; fine linen or silk
• Thelasar, same as Telassar
• Theophilus
  Theophilus (Biblical)
  Theophilus is the name or honorary title of the person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed...
  
  , friend of God
• Thessalonica, victory against the Thessalians
• Theudas
  Theudas
  Theudas was a Jewish rebel of the 1st century AD. His name, if a Greek compound, may mean "gift of God", although other scholars believe its etymology is Semitic and might mean “flowing with water”...
  
  , flowing with water
• Thomas
  Thomas the Apostle
  Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known for questioning Jesus' resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus in . He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside the Roman...
  
  , a twin
• Thuhash, badger
• Thummim, perfection; truth
• Thyatira
  Thyatira
  Thyateira is the name of the modern Turkish city of Akhisar . The name comes from Koine Greek "Θυάτειρα" . The Turkish equivalent of Thyateira is Tepe Mezarligi. It lies in the far west of Turkey, south of Istanbul and almost due east of Athens...
  
  , a perfume; sacrifice of labor
• Tibbath, killing; a cook
• Tiberias, good vision; the navel
• Tiberius
  Tiberius
  Tiberius , was Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Tiberius was by birth a Claudian, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced Nero and married Augustus in 39 BC, making him a step-son of Octavian...
  
  , the son of Tiber
• Tibni
  Tibni
  Tibni was a claimant to the throne of the Israel, and the son of Ginath, a man of some position. Albright has dated his reign to 876 – 871 BC, while Thiele offers the dates 885 – 880 BC....
  
  , straw; hay
• Tidal, that breaks the yoke; knowledge of elevation
• Tiglath-Pileser
  Tiglath-Pileser III
  Tiglath-Pileser III was a prominent king of Assyria in the eighth century BC and is widely regarded as the founder of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Tiglath-Pileser III seized the Assyrian throne during a civil war and killed the royal family...
  
  , that binds or takes away captivity
• Tikvah, hope; a little line; congregation
• Tilon, murmuring
• Timeus, perfect; admirable; honorable
• Timnah
  Timnah
  Timnath or Timnah was a Philistine city in Canaan that is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in . It has been identified with Tel Batash , a tel located in the Sorek Valley, near moshav Tal Shahar, Israel....
  
  , forbidding
• Timnath, image; figure; enumeration
• Timnath-heres
  Timnath-heres
  Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah was the town given to Joshua in the Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him "at the order of the Lord". He built up the town and lived in it. On his death, he was buried there. Jewish tradition also places the tomb of Caleb there.-Location:It was in...
  
  , or Timnath-serah, image of the sun; numbering of the rest
• Timon, honorable; worthy
• Timotheus, honor of God; valued of God
• Tiphsah, passage; leap; step; the passover
• Tire
  Tire
  A tire or tyre is a ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel rim to protect it and enable better vehicle performance by providing a flexible cushion that absorbs shock while keeping the wheel in close contact with the ground...
  
  , headdress
• Tirhakah, inquirer; examiner; dull observer
• Tiria, searching out
• Tirras, desire
• Tirshatha, a governor
• Tirza
  Tirza
  Tirza is a 2010 Dutch drama film directed by Rudolf van den Berg and based on the Dutch bestseller of the same name by Arnon Grunberg. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist.-Cast:* Gijs Scholten...
  
  , Pleasantness
• Tirzah
  Tirzah
  Tirzah is a Hebrew word meaning "she is my delight." In the Bible it is the name of a woman, one of the daughters of Zelophehad.-Hebrew name:...
  
  , benevolent; complaisant; pleasing
• Tishbite
  Tishbite
  Tishbite is a word used in the Bible to refer to Elijah . The phrasing can be reworded as "Elijah the Tishbite of Tishbe inGilead." The word is sometimes interpreted as "stranger," so that the verse might read "Elijah the stranger from among the strangers in Gilead." This designation is probably...
  
  , that makes captive
• Titus
  Titus
  Titus , was Roman Emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own father....
  
  , pleasing
• Toah, weapon; dart
• Tob
  Tob
  Tob was the name of a place in ancient Israel, mentioned in the Bible.It is said to be the land to which Jephtha fled from his brothers. The location is not definitely known, but some identify it with the region centering on Taibiyah, southeast of Sea of Galilee...
  
  , good; goodness
• Tob-adonijah, my good God; the goodness of the foundation of the Lord
• Tobiah, Tobijah, the Lord is good
• Tochen, middle
• Togarmah
  Togarmah
  Togarmah third son of Gomer, and grandson of Japheth, brother of Ashkenaz and Riphat...
  
  , which is all bone
• Tohu, that lives; that declares
• Toi, who wanders
• Tola, worm; grub; scarlet
• Tophet
  Tophet
  Tophet or Topheth is believed to be a location in Jerusalem, in the Valley of Hinnom, where the Canaanites sacrificed children to the god Moloch by burning them alive. The Hebrew Bible also mentions what appears to be child sacrifice practiced at a place called the Tophet by the Canaanites,...
  
  , a drum; betraying
• Topheth, place of burning
• Trachonitis
  Trachonitis
  Trachonitis was a region that once formed part of Herod Philip's tetrarchy. It now lies within the boundaries of modern Syria.It appears in the Bible only in the phrase tes Itouraias kai Trachbnitidos choras, literally, "of the Iturean and Trachonian region"...
  
  , stony
• Troas, penetrated
• Trophimus
  Trophimus
  Trophimus, meaning a foster-child, was an Ephesian who accompanied Paul during a part of his third missionary journey . He was with Paul in Jerusalem, and the Jews, supposing that the apostle had brought him with him into the temple, raised a tumult which resulted in Paul’s imprisonment....
  
  , well educated; well brought up
• Tryphena
  Tryphena of Rome
  Tryphena of Rome is a Christian woman mentioned in Romans 16:12 of the Bible According to Wiktionary, the name 'Tryphena' is of Greek origin meaning 'dainty' or delicate' although Strong's Concordance derives the name from the Greek truphe, meaning 'luxurious'.The name is rarely given now but had...
  
  , delicious; delicate
• Tryphon
  Tryphon
  Tryphon or Trypho was a Greek grammarian who lived and worked in Alexandria. He was a contemporary of Didymus Chalcenterus....
  
  , masculine of Tryphena
• Tryphosa, thrice shining
• Tubal
  Tubal
  Tubal, תובל or תבל , in Genesis 10 , was the name of a son of Japheth, son of Noah.Many authors, following the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus , related the name to Iber- Caucasian Iberia...
  
  , the earth; the world; confusion
• Tubal-Cain
  Tubal-cain
  Tubal-cain is an individual mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in . He was a descendant of Cain, the son of Lamech and Zillah, and the brother of Naamah.-Name:...
  
  , worldly possession; possessed of confusion
• Tychicus
  Tychicus
  Tychicus is one of Paul's companions in the New Testament. He is mentioned five times .* states that Tychicus was from the Roman province of Asia*The Western text indicates that he was an Ephesian....
  
  , casual; by chance
• Tyrannus, a prince; one that reigns
• Tyrus, strength; rock; sharp