Strong H8472תַּחְפְּנֵיס
Tahpenes
- Transliteration
- tachpenêys
- Pronunciation
- takh-pen-ace'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Feminine) of a Person
Definition
Of Egyptian derivation;
{Tachpenes} an Egyptian woman: - Tahpenes.
{Tachpenes} an Egyptian woman: - Tahpenes.
Meaning of the name
Tahpenes = "wife of the king"
Detailed definition
Tahpenes: an Egyptian queen, wife of the Pharaoh who sheltered Hadad; her sister married Hadad and bore Genubath (1 Kings 11:19–20).
In the biblical story
Tahpenes
Egyptian queen who raised Hadad the Edomite
Tahpenes was the queen of Egypt who gave her sister in marriage to Hadad the Edomite.
In the Bible
Strong H8472 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- tahpenes2
First verses
- 1 Kings 11:19And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
- 1 Kings 11:20And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.