Places of the Bible
Timnah
A town of Judah · City · now Tel Batash
What the spade found
Timnah is generally identified with Tell Batash, a tell — a mound raised by one settlement built on the ruins of the last. It has been excavated, and at its largest covered 2.4 hectares.
Occupation shows in 9 dated phases: Middle Bronze Age II-III, Late Bronze Age I, Late Bronze Age II, Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age I, Iron Age IIa, Iron Age IIb, Iron Age IIc, Iron Age III (Persian).
The excavation is from the survey dataset From Villages to Empires (Zanoni and others, 2025), used under CC BY 4.0. The identification is the one modern scholarship settles on, compiled by OpenBible.info from over seventy works, also under CC BY 4.0. Identifying a mound with a biblical name is a scholarly judgement, and for some places it is still debated.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A town of Judah (Josh. 15:10). The Philistines took possession of it in the days of Ahaz (2 Chr. 28:18). It was about 20 miles west of Jerusalem. It has been identified with Timnatha of Dan (Josh. 19:43), and also with Timnath (Judg. 14:1, 5).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 8 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.