Lexical Summary Tidal: perhaps a Canaanite king Original Word: תִּדְעָלTransliteration: Tidal Phonetic Spelling: (tid-awl') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: perhaps a Canaanite king Meaning: Tidal -- perhaps a Canaanite king Strong's Concordance Tadmor Or Tammor (1 Kings 9:18) {tam-more'}; apparently from tamar; palm-city; Tadmor, a place near Palestine -- Tadmor. see HEBREW tamar Brown-Driver-Briggs H8413. Tidal תִּדְעָל proper name, masculine king allied with Chedorlaomer called גּוֺיִם מֶלֶךְ Genesis 14:1, 9; Θαλγα[λ], ᵐ5L Θαργαλ (proper name Tud—ula occurs on late Babylonian tablet, PinchesTrans. Vict. Inst., xxix (1897), 47, 73, SayAcad. Mar. 21, 1896, 242; Hast. DB TIDAL; but identification of person unproven, LW KingHammurabi i (1898), liii HptBall 14:1 CheEncy. Bib. TIDAL). תהה (√ of following; meaning dubious: Aramaic תְּהָא is rage, roar (of earth, with reference to Genesis 1:2), of man, bluster; al. compare Arabic go astray, desert waste, but this very doubtful). |
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