This document is about **Timnah (south of Hebron)**. For other homonyms, please refer to the Timnah document.
A city south of Hebron that belonged to the tribe of Judah.
Joshua 15:57Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
Judah (son of Jacob) went up to this place and lay with his daughter-in-law Tamar.
Genesis 38:12After a long time, the daughter of Shua), Judah's) wife, died. When Judah) had been comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheep-shearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.Genesis 38:13And it was told to Tamar), "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."Genesis 38:14So she took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah) was grown, and she had not been given to him as a wife.Genesis 38:15When Judah) saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.Genesis 38:16He turned aside to her by the road and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"Genesis 38:17Judah) said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge until you send it?"Genesis 38:18Judah) said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She said, "Your signet ring and your cord and the staff that is in your hand." So Judah) gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by Judah).