Tappuah

Tappuah

Tappuah is a Biblical name with several meanings:
* Taffah, formerly (Beth-)Tappuah, was a town on the West Bank 4 miles west of Hebron.
* Entappuah was mentioned in the Book of Joshua and is probably a spring near Yassuf.
* Tappuah was a town bordering Ephraim and conquered by Manasseh.
* "Tappuah" is the Hebrew word for "apple."


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  • TAPPUAH — (Heb. תַּפֻּחַ ,תַּפּוּחַ) (1) a city of the tribe of Judah, located in the district of the northern Shephelah with Zanoah and Enam (Josh. 15:34). The Tappuah listed with the sons of Hebron (I Chron. 2:43) is perhaps identical with the Beth… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Tappuah —    Apple region.    1) A town in the valley or lowland of Judah; formerly a royal city of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:17; 15:34). It is now called Tuffuh, about 12 miles west of Jerusalem.    2) A town on the border of Ephraim (Josh. 16:8). The land …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • Kefar Tappuah — Dieser Artikel behandelt unter anderem die israelische Siedlung Schilo, Silo. Für andere Bedeutungen von Silo, Schilo, Schiloh, Shiloh, Shilo siehe Silo (Begriffsklärung). Diese Liste israelischer Siedlungen führt alle größeren israelischen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Beth-tappuah —    House of apples, a town of Judah, now Tuffuh, 5 miles west of Hebron (Josh. 15:53) …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • List of Biblical names — This is a list of names from the Bible, mainly taken from the 19th century public domain resource: : Hitchcock s New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible by Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869.Each name is given with its …   Wikipedia

  • Plants in the Bible — • Discusses all of the types of plants mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Plants in the Bible     Plants in the Bible      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Joshua 17 — 1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. 2 There was also a lot for… …   The King James version of the Bible

  • Adamsapfel — Sm Schildknorpel beim Mann std. (18. Jh.) Onomastische Bildung. Die Bezeichnung tritt zuerst im 15. Jh. im Gebiet der romanischen Sprachen auf. Älter (und entsprechend weit verbreitet) ist die Bedeutung Granatapfel (deutsch 14. Jh.), auch als… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • Adam's apple — 1755, perhaps an inexact translation of Hebrew tappuah haadam, lit. man s swelling, from ha adam the man + tappuah anything swollen. The reference is to the legend that a piece of the forbidden fruit (commonly believed to be an apple) that Eve… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Adamsapfel — Adamsapfel: Die seit dem 18. Jh. bezeugte volkstümliche Bezeichnung für den vorstehenden Schildknorpel des Mannes beruht auf der Vorstellung, dass Adam ein Stück des verbotenen Apfels im Halse stecken geblieben sei. Diese Vorstellung ist bei den… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

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