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Taanach

who humbles thee; who answers thee

Taanach-shilo

breaking down a fig-tree

Tabbath

good; goodness

Tabeal

Tabeel, good God

Taberah

burning

Tabitha

clear-sighted; a roe-deer

Tabor

choice; purity; bruising

Tabrimon

good pomegranate; the navel; the middle

Tadmor

the palm-tree; bitterness

Tahan

beseeching; merciful

Tahapenes

secret temptation

Tahath

fear; going down

Tahpenes

standard; flight; temptation

Tahrea

anger; wicked contention

Talitha-cumi

young woman, arise

Talmai

my furrow; that suspends the waters; heap of waters

Tamah

blotting or wiping out; smiting

Tamar

palm; palm-tree

Tammuz

abstruse; concealed; consumed

Tanach

same as Taanach

Tanhumeth

consolation; repentance

Taphath

distillation; drop

Tappuah

apple; swelling

Tarah

a hair; a wretch; one banished

Taralah

searching out slander, or strength

Tarea

howling; doing evil

Tarpelites

ravishers; succession of miracles

Tarshish

contemplation; examination

Tarsus

winged; feathered

Tartak

chained; bound; shut up

Tartan

a general (official title)

Tatnai

that gives; the overseer of the gifts and tributes

Tebah

murder; butchery; guarding of the body; a cook

Tebaliah

baptism, or goodness, of the Lord

Tebeth

good, goodness (the tenth month of the Hebrews)

Tehinnah

entreaty; a favor

Tekel

weight

Tekoa

trumpet; that is confirmed

Telabib

a heap of new grain

Telah

moistening; greenness

Telassar

taking away; heaping up

Telem

their dew; their shadow

Telharsa

suspension of the plow

Tel-melah

heap of salt

Tema

admiration; perfection; consummation

Teman

Temani, the south; Africa; perfect

Terah

to breathe; scent; blow

Teraphim

images; idols

Tertius

third

Tertullus

third

Tetrarch

governor of a fourth part

Thaddeus

that praises or confesses

Thahash

that makes haste; that keeps silence

Thamah

that blots out; that suppresses

Tharah

same as Terah

Thebez

muddy; eggs; fine linen or silk

Thelasar

same as Telassar

Theophilus

friend of God

Thessalonica

victory against the Thessalians

Theudas

flowing with water

Thomas

a twin

Thummim

perfection; truth

Thyatira

a perfume; sacrifice of labor

Tibbath

killing; a cook

Tiberias

good vision; the navel

Tiberius

the son of Tiber

Tibni

straw; hay

Tidal

that breaks the yoke; knowledge of elevation

Tiglath-pileser

that binds or takes away captivity

Tikvah

hope; a little line; congregation

Tilon

murmuring

Timeus

perfect; admirable; honorable

Timnah

forbidding

Timnath

image; figure; enumeration

Timnath-heres

or Timnath-serah, image of the sun; numbering of the rest

Timon

honorable; worthy

Timotheus

honor of God; valued of God

Tiphsah

passage; leap; step; the passover

Tirhakah

inquirer; examiner; dull observer

Tiria

searching out

Tirshatha

a governor

Tirzah

benevolent; complaisant; pleasing

Tishbite

that makes captive

Titus

pleasing

Toah

weapon; dart

Tob

good; goodness

Tob-adonijah

my good God; the goodness of the foundation of the Lord

Tobiah

Tobijah, the Lord is good

Tochen

middle

Togarmah

which is all bone

Tohu

that lives; that declares

Toi

who wanders

Tola

worm; grub; scarlet

Tolad

a generation

Tophel

ruin; folly; without understanding

Tophet

a drum; betraying

Trachonitis

stony

Troas

penetrated

Trophimus

well educated; well brought up

Tryphena

delicious; delicate

Tryphon

masculine of Tryphena

Tryphosa

thrice shining

Tubal

the earth; the world; confusion

Tubal-cain

worldly possession; possessed of confusion

Tychicus

casual; by chance

Tyrannus

a prince; one that reigns

Tyre

Tyrus, strength; rock; sharp

Roswell D. Hitchcock, Bible Names Dictionary, from An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names (1869). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.