Tirhakah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Tirhakah
     the last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty.
     He was the brother-in-law of So (q.v.). He probably ascended the
     throne about B.C. 692, having been previously king of Ethiopia
     (2 Kings 19:9; Isa. 37:9), which with Egypt now formed one
     nation. He was a great warrior, and but little is known of him.


     The Assyrian armies under Esarhaddon, and again under
     Assur-bani-pal, invaded Egypt and defeated Tirhakah, who
     afterwards retired into Ethiopia, where he died, after reigning
     twenty-six years.
     

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

  Tirhakah, inquirer; examiner; dull observer