Timna

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tim'na. (Restraint).

1. A concubine of Eliphaz, son of Esau, and mother of Amalek,  Genesis 36:12. It may be presumed that she was the ame as Timna, sister of Lotan.  Genesis 36:22, and  1 Chronicles 1:39. (B.C. after 1800).

A duke, or phylarch, of Edom, in the last list in  Genesis 36:40-43;  1 Chronicles 1:51-54. Timnah was probably the name of a place or a district. See Timnah .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Eliphaz' concubine, mother of Amalek ( Genesis 36:12;  Genesis 36:22); in  1 Chronicles 1:36 Timna is not, as apparently, a son of Eliphaz. Probably sister of Lotan, daughter of the Horite Seir. The feminine form of Timna shows that it is introduced in Chronicles as an abbreviation for what the chronicler knew his readers understood from Genesis, namely, that Timna was mother of "Amalek," which follows.

2. A duke or Phylarch of Edom ( Genesis 36:40-43), so that Timna was probably the name of a district.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

TIMNA . 1 . A concubine of Eliphaz, son of Esau (  Genesis 36:12 ). 2 . A woman of the Esau clan of Horites (  Genesis 36:22 ,   1 Chronicles 1:39 ). 3 . A ‘duke’ of Edom (  1 Chronicles 1:51 ,   Genesis 36:40 [where RV [Note: Revised Version.] has, by a slip, Timnah ]).

H. L. Willett.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 36:22 1 Chronicles 1:39 Genesis 36:12 2 1 Chronicles 1:36 Genesis 36:16 Genesis 36:40 1 Chronicles 1:51 Genesis 36:16

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Concubine of Eliphaz, son of Esau, and mother of Amalek.  Genesis 36:12 .

2. Daughter of Seir the Horite.   Genesis 36:22;  1 Chronicles 1:39 .

3. Son of Eliphaz, a son of Esau.   1 Chronicles 1:36 .

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A secondary wife of Eliphaz the son Esau, a name which recurs in the records of the Idumaena tribes,  Genesis 36:12,22,40;  1 Chronicles 1:36,51 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

tim´na ( תּמנע , timna‛  ; Θαμνά , Thamná ): A conbubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son, and the mother of Amalek (  Genesis 36:12 ). But in  Genesis 36:22 and   1 Chronicles 1:39 Timna is the sister of Lotan, and in   Genesis 36:40 and   1 Chronicles 1:51 a chief or elan of Edom (see Timnah (3)). These variations are to be expected when the origin of genealogies is recalled. (In Genesis, English Versions of the Bible read, contrary to rule, "Timnah.") Gunkel's theory is that  Genesis 36:12 is a later insertion in P.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Timna, תַּמַנָע , Restraint ) , the name of a woman and also of a man.

1. (Sept. Θαμνά ) A concubine of Eliphaz, son of Esau, and by him mother of Amalek ( Genesis 36:12; named [apparently only] in 1 Chronicles 1, 36 [by an ellipsis] as a son of Eliphaz); probably the same as the sister of Lotan, and daughter of Seir the Horite ( Genesis 36:22; 1 Chronicles 1, 39). B.C. considerably post 1963.

2. (Sept. Θαμανά V.R. Θαιμάν  ; "Timnah." ) The first named of the Esauite "dukes" or sheiks in Mount Seir ( Genesis 36:40; 1 Chronicles 1, 51). B.C. long post 1963.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Tim´na (restraint), a concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau . From her the name passed over to an Edomitish tribe .