Ti'dal (Heb. Tidal' ,hv-iT\, im\\em\i\c=fear [V^e- senius] or renoivn [Flirstl ; but, according to Leiiormant, Accadian =,9/-ea< son; Sept. QapydX v. r. Qa\ya\ Jo- sephus, QuSaXoQ, Ant. i, 9, 1; Vulg. Thadal), the last named (Gen. xiv, 1, 9) of the three subordinate "kings" who, in confederation with Chcdorlaomer, attacked and defeated the rebellious princes of the Sodoraitic pentar- chy in the days of Abraham, B.C. cir. 2070. He is called '• king of nations" (□"'13, (/ni/iiii), which Symraachus in- terprets Sci/thians, and others Galilee, both on very slen- der, if not inaccurate, grounds. Kawlinson suggests, for equally precarious reasons (Ancient Monarchies, i, 55, note), that the name is probably Turanian ; but he justly remarks that, from the title given to Tidal, " it is reason- able to understand that he was a chief over various no- madic tribes to whom no special tract of country could be assigned, since at different times of the year they in- habited different portions of Lower Mesopotamia. This is the case with the Arabs of these parts at the present day." See Chkdorlaomek.
Tidhar. See Pine.
Tiedebaik, in Chinese and Japanese mythology, was one of the head deities, who is said to be in the temple of Osaka. It is unknown what this deity rep- resented, unless the description of the image permits a conjecture. Tiedebaik, a powerful* four-armed giant, with a crown upon his head, stands in splendidly ornament- ed dress upon a figure whose horned head and dragon tail characterize it as an evil deity. •
Tierce, the service for the third hour, or nine o'clock in the morning, in the early Church. See Matin ; Nones ; Vespeks.
Tiercilits, the name given to the third order of IMiniras (q. v.).
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TifGn, Edward, M.D., a local preacher in the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was born in Carlisle, England, June 19, 17()G. At an early age he commenced the study of medicine; removed to the United States in 1784, and settled in Charlestown, Jefferson Co., Va., where he became a practitioner. In 1790 he entered the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was ordained deacon by bishop Asbury, Nov. 19, 1792. In 1796 Dr. Tiffin took up his residence in Chillicothe, in the terri- tory north-west of the Ohio River, where he continued the practice of medicine, and preached regularly on Sundays. In the autumn of 1799, Dr. Tiffin was elect- ed a member of the territorial legislature ; in 1802 he was chosen a delegate from Ross County to the conven- tion which adopted the first constitution and formed a state government for Ohio, of which convention he was elected president. In 1803 he was elected the first gov- ernor. At the session of the legislature in 1806-7, governor Tiffin was chosen United States senator, but resigned March 3, 1809, on account of the death of his wife. The same year he was elected to the legislature and chosen speaker of the House. The next year (1810) he was returned to the House of Representa- tives and elected speaker. He was selected by presi- dent Madison a commissioner of the General Land Of- fice; but, not enjoying the society of Washington, he exchanged offices with Josiah jNIeigs, surveyor-general of public lands. He took up his residence in Chilli- cothe, still attending to ministerial duties. He held the office of surveyor-general for nearly fifteen j-ears, when he obtained leave to retire, July 1, 1829. He died Aug. 9 of the same }-ear. Three of his Sermons, preached in 1817, were piJjlished in the Ohio Conference Offerhifj, (1851). See Sprague, /!?;««/« of the Amer. Pulpit, \u, 205.
Tig'lath-pile'ser (Heb. Ti<jlath' Pik'ser, r?5n "CN^S, 2 Kings xv, 29; xvi, 10; or briefly Ti(jluih' Pele'ser, "iD'S rpSri, ver. 7), or (less correctly) Til'- gnth-pilne'ser {W^h.Tilgath' Pilne'ser,'^'0'!f,'y:>'^ Tth>t\, 1 Chron. V, 6; 2 Chron. xxviii, 20 ; or brietiy Tilgath' Pilne'ser, "^0353 rsbri, 1 Chron. v, 26), an Assyrian king. The Sept. Graecizes the name GaXyaS'^fXXn- aap (v. r. iia\ya\(p{K\a(Tap, ' AXyaBcpsWarrap, 'AyXa-S' <I>aXXa(T«^)), Josephns, GtyXoi^rtXaffcrop^/c (Ant. ix, 12, 3), and the Vulg. T/ieyluth-Phalasar. The monument- al name is, according to Rawlinson, Tuhulti-pal-zh-a ; according to Oppert, TuMat-pul-asar (i. e. -assur) ; ac- cording to Hincks, Tiklat-pal-isri ; according to others, Tigulti-pal-tsira. The signification of the name is somewhat doubtful. M. Oppert renders it, "Adoratio [sit] filio Zodiaci,"and explains " tlie son of the Zodi- ac" as Nin, or Hercules (Expedition Scientifqtie en iMe- sopotnmie, ii, 352). It would seem to signify " worship of the son of Assur," perhaps as a royal sobriquet. The Assyrian king of this name mentioned in Scripture is Tiglath-pileser II, an earlier king of the same name having ascended the Assyrian throne about B.C. 1130; of whose reign, or a portion of it, two cylinders are preserved in the British Museum (Rawlinson, Ancient Monarchies, ii, 62-79 ). ( The following account is chiefly based upon that found in Smith's Diet, of the Bible.)
1. Biblical Statements. — Tiglath-pileser is the second Assvrian king mentioned in Scripture as having come into contact with the Israelites, the first being Pul (q. v.). He attacked Samaria in the reign of Pekah (B.C. 756^736), on what ground we are not told, but probably because Pekah had withheld his tribute, and, having entered his territories, " took Ijon, and Abel-beth- maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria" (2 Kings xv, 29) : thus "lightly atHicting the land of Zebulini and the land of Naphtali" (Isa. ix, 1) — the most northern, and so the most exposed, portion of the country. The date of thia