Ta'han (Heb. Tach'an, "inp, camp [Gesenius], or r/racinusness [Flirst]), the name of two descendants of Ephraim.
1. (Sept. Tni'ax v. r. Tarat; Vulg. Thehen.) The head of one of the families of the Ephraimites at the end of the Exode (Numb, xxvi, 35). B.C. ante 1618. See Taiianite.
2. (Sept. Qakv v. r. Qaav\ Vulg. Thaan.) Son of Telah and father of Laadan in the Palestinian lineage of Ephraim (1 Chron. vii, 25). B.C. post 1618.
Ta'hanite (Heb. Tachani', "'inri, patronymic from Tdhan ; Sept. Tavaxi v. r. Tni'ni; Vulg. Thehenita^, the family name (Numb, xxvi, 35) of the descendants
of TaIIAN 1 ((|. v.).
Tahap'anes (Jer. ii, 16). See Tahpaniies.
Taharoth. See Talmud.
Ta'hath (Heb. Tdchath, rnpl, in pause Tdchath, rnn, station, i. e. beneath, as often), the name of a place and of three men.
1. (Sept. Knr«a3 v. r. Qda^; Vulg. Thahath.) One of the stations of the Israelites in the desert between Makheloth and Tarah (Numb, xxxiii, 26) ; situated ap- parently not far beyond the western edge of the Arabah nearly opposite Mount Hor. See Exode.
2." (Sept. e«a3 v. r. Kao^; Vulg. Thahafh.) A Kohathite Levite, son of Assir and fatiier of Uriel, or Zephaniah, in the ancestrv of Samuel and Heman (1 Chron. vi, 24, 37 [Heb. 9 aiid 22 J). B.C. cir. 1585.
3. (Sept. Bar'iSr v. r. OadS; Vulg. Thahath.) Son of Bered and father of Eladah, among the immediate descendants of Ephraim in Palestine (1 Chron. vii, 20). B.C. post 1618. Burrington (Geneal. i, 273) regards him as the same with Tahan (q. v.) the son of Ephraim ; but against the text.
4. (Sept. ^auB V. r. No/ks ; Vulg. Tahath.) Grand- sou of the preceding (with whom some confoinul him), being son of Eladah and father of Zabad (1 Chron. "ii, 20). B.C. post 1618.
Tahitian Version. The extensive assemblage of islands in which the Tahitian dialect is spoken includes the Society, or Leeward, and the Georgian, or Wind- ward, Isles, with the Low Islands, and the "Paumotu," or Dangerous Archipelago. The largest of the islands is Otaheite, or, more properly, Tahiti, where the Tahitian language, generally considered as the most perfect type of all the Polynesian dialects, remained in its primitive simplicity. To account for this, it seems as if Tahiti had been peopled before any other island of Polynesia, properly so calletl ; that from thence, as from a centre, emigrants went to settle on the islands of the surround- ing archipelago as far as New Zealanti, and that while the Polynesian language became more or less modified by the mode of life called for by the nature of the soil or of the climate, it remained, as stated already, in its primitive simplicity at Tahiti. The Tahitian version was made from the English Bible, with constant refer- ence to the sacred originals. The first portion pub- lished was the Gospel of Luke, which appeared in 1818, while in 18,38 the entire Bible was published in Lon- don under the superintendence of the Rev. Henry Nott.
Other editions followed, of which the most important, consisting of a revised edition of the entire Scriptures, was completed in London in 1848. In 1877 the annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society an- nounced that the committee were bringing out a revised edition with maps, which, according to the report, in 1879, had left the press, the edition, consisting of 5000, having been edited l)y the Rev. A. T. Saville. LTp to March 31, 1879, the sinn total of Bibles distributed, either as a whole or in parts, was 42,335. See, besides The Bible of Every Land, the annual reports of the British and Foreign Rible Society since 1860, which are the only source of information. (B. P.)
Tah'panhes (Heb. Tachpanches', OnaSfiri, Jer. ii, 16 [marg.]; xliii, 7, 8, 9 ; xliv. 1; xlvi, 14), Ta- hap'anes (Heb. Tachpanes', 03300, ii, 16 [text]), or Tehaph'nehes (Heb. Techaphneches', Onssriri, Ezek. XXX, 18; all of Egyptian origin [see below]; Sept. Tt((/)i'at' or Tdfyai ; Vulg. Taphne or Taphnis), a city of Egypt, of importance in the time of the prophets Jeremiah and EzekieL The name is clearly Egyptian, and closely resembles that of the Egyptian queen Taii- PESES (q. v.), which, however, throws no light upon it. The Coptic name of this place, Taphnas (Quatremere, Mem. Geof/. et Hist, i, 297, 298), is obviously derived from the Sept. form : the Gr. and Lat. forms, Adcpvai, Herod., Adiprri, Steph. Byz., D<fno, hin. Ant., are per- haps nearer to the Egyptian original (see Parthey, Znr Erdkunde des alten Aegyptens, p. 528). Can the name be of Greek origin ? If the H anes mentioned by Isaiah (xxx, 4) be the same as Tahpanhes, as we have sug- gested (s. v.), this conjecture must be dismissed. No satisfactory Egyptian etymology of this name has been suggested, .Tablonski's Taphenes, " the head" or " begin- ning of the age" {Opusc. i, 343), being quite untenable; nor has any Egyptian name resembling it been discov- ered. Dr.''Brugsch (Geogr. Inschr. \, 300, 301, Taf. Ivi, No. 1728), following Mr. Heath {Exodus Papyri, p. 174), identifies the fort Tebenet with Tahpanhes; but this name does not seem to us sufficiently near either to the Hebrew or to the Greek.
Tahpanhes was evidently a town of Lower Egypt near or on the eastern border. When Johanan and the other captains went into Egypt " they came to Tahpan- hes" (Jer. xliii, 7). Here Jeremiah prophesied the con- quest of the country by Nebuchadnezzar (ver. 8-13). Ezekiel foretells a battle to be there fought, apparently by the king of Babylon just mentioned (xxx, \>i). The Jews in Jeremiah's time remained here (Jer. xliv, 1). It was an important town, being twice mentioned by the latter prophet with Noph or Memphis (ii, 16; xlvi, 14), as well as in the passage last cited. Here stood a house of Pharaoh Hophra before which Jere- miah hid great stones, where the throne of Nebu- chadnezzar would afterwards be set, and his pavilion spread (xliii, 8-10). It is mentioned with " Kamesse and all the land of Gesen" in Judith i, 9. Herodotus calls this place Daphncc of Pelusium (A«0)'a( «1 \\i]- Xovffiai), and relates that Psammetichus I had here a garrison against the Arabians and Syrians, as at Ele- phantine against the Ethiopians, and at Marea against Libya, adding that in his own time the Persians had garrisons at Daphnajand Elephantine (ii, 30). Daphnae was therefore a very important post under the twenty- sixth dynasty. According to Stephanus, it was near Pelusium (s. v.). In the Itinerary of Antoninus this town, called Dafno, is placed sixteen Roman miles to the south-west of Pelusium (ap. Parthey, Map vi, where observe that the name of Pelusiimi is omitted). This position seems to agree with that of Tel- Defenneh, which Sir Gardner Wilkinson supposes to mark the site of Daphnje (Modern Egypt and Thebes, i, 447, 448). This identification favors the inland position of the site of Pelusium, if we may trust to the distance stated in the Itinerary. See Sin. Sir Gardner Wilkinson {loc. cit.) thinks it was an outpost of Pelusium. It may be ob-