Tiphsah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tiphsah
     passing over; ford, one of the boundaries of Solomon's dominions
     (1 Kings 4:24), probably "Thapsacus, a great and wealthy town on
     the western bank of the Euphrates," about 100 miles north-east
     of Tadmor. All the land traffic between the east and the west
     passed through it. Menahem undertook an expedition against this


     city, and "smote Tiphsah and all that were therein" (2 Kings
     15:16). This expedition implied a march of some 300 miles from
     Tirzah if by way of Tadmor, and about 400 if by way of Aleppo;
     and its success showed the strength of the Israelite kingdom,
     for it was practically a defiance to Assyria. Conder, however,
     identifies this place with Khurbet Tafsah, some 6 miles west of
     Shechem.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tiphsah, passage; leap; step; the passover