Tahath
Smith's Bible Dictionary [1]
Ta'hath. (Station).
1. A Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Samue, l and Heman. 1 Chronicles 6:22; 1 Chronicles 6:; 1 Chronicles 9:22. (B.C. about 1415).
2. According to the present text, son of Bered, and great-grandson of Ephraim. 1 Chronicles 7:20. Burrington, however, identifies Tahath with Tahan, the son of Ephraim.
3. Grandson of Tahath, 2, as the text now stands. 1 Chronicles 7:20. But Burrington considers him as a son of Ephraim.
4. The name of a desert station of the Israelites, between Makheloth and Tarah. Numbers 33:26. The site has not been identified.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
TAHATH . 1. A Kohathite Levite ( 1 Chronicles 6:24 ). 2. 3. Two (unless the name has been accidentally repeated) Ephraimite families ( 1 Chronicles 7:20 ). 4. An unidentified ‘station’ of the Israelites ( Numbers 33:26 f.).
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
1 Chronicles 6:37
2. Two descendants of Ephraim ( 1 Chronicles 7:20 ). See Numbers 33:26-27 ).
Morrish Bible Dictionary [4]
3,4. Son of Bered and a son of Eladah, descendants of Ephraim. 1 Chronicles 7:20 .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
(Heb. Tdchath, תִּחִת , in pause Tachath, תָּחִת , Station, i.e. Beneath, as often), the name of a place and of three men.
1. (Sept. Καταάθ v.r. Θάαθ ; Vulg. Thahath.) One of the stations of the Israelites in' the desert between Makheloth and Tarah ( Numbers 33:26); situated apparently not far beyond the western edge of the Arabah nearly opposite Mount Hor. (See Exode). —
2. (Sept. Θαάθ v.r. Καάθ ; Vulg. Thahath.) A Kohathite Levite, son of Assir and father of Uriel, or Zephaniah, in the ancestry of Samuel and Heman ( 1 Chronicles 6:24; 1 Chronicles 6:37 [Heb. 9 and 22]). B.C. cir. 1585.
3. (Sept. Θαάθ v.r. Θαάδ ; Vulg. Thahath.) Son of Bered, and father of Eladah, among the immediate descendants of Ephraim in Palestine ( 1 Chronicles 7:20). B.C. — post 1618. Burrington (General. 1, 273) regards him as the same with Tahan (q.v.) the son of Ephraim; but against the text.
4. (Sept. Σαάθ v.r. Νομεέ ; Vulg. Tahath.) Grandson of the preceding (with whom some confound him), being son of Eladah and father of Zabad ( 1 Chronicles 7:20). B.C. post 1618.
