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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8640
tir.ha.qah — Tirhakah
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.19.9 § Tirhakah = "he searched out the pious: he searched out the waiter" king of Ethiopia and Egypt in the time of Sennacherib
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →The last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty. He was the brother-in-law of So (q.v.). He probably ascended the throne about B.C. 692, having been previously king of Ethiopia (2 Kings 19:9; Isa. 37:9), which with Egypt now formed one nation. He was a great warrior, and but little is known of him. The Assyrian armies under Esarhaddon, and again under Assur-bani-pal, invaded Egypt and defeated Tirhakah, who afterwards retired into Ethiopia, where he died, after reigning twenty-six years.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
