Tilon (Hastings' Dictionary)

A son of Shimon, 1 Ch 4-". TIMiEUS, only Mk 10«.— Father of the blind beggar Bartim^us (vol. i. p. 248). If the name be Greek, it must be written Ti/xaios, and thus WH write even the second name Ba/jri^iaios ; if it be Semitic, like most names in -aios in the NT, it must be Ti/iatos, like Za^'xcttos, Ba/j^oXo/iatos, etc. Both suppositions have their difficulties. Again, ' the son of Timseus ' (ulis Ti^aiou) seems a mere translation of BapTi/taios.

Ecclesiastical tradition gives to the name the meaning ' blind ' (see Unomastica sacra, ed. Lagarde, 176, 35, Bapniioios vl&s Tvip\6s ; 66, 10 (Jerome) : Barsemia filiua ciecus, quod et ipsum quidam corrupte Barti- maium legunt).* Ng?, k;-d means ' blind ' ; but how are we to get from seme to timait Jastrow (Dic- tionary, p. 532 ; simUarly, Krauss, Lehmoorter) mentions from l;foh. rabba to Ec 9' 'i-i r^•^2 i'lit'in- 'i •D-a, but Yalk. Koh.

979 has only ■n'jcc i, and with Dalman, Aramaisch ■ neuhcbrdisches Worterbiwh, p. 162, we must perhaps read 'DV = Simeon. The Thesaurus Syriacus (4S6, 1462) mentions a place 'D'p r'3. The Syriac 'V^ersions, including the Arabic ■Patian, Syrus Sinaiticus, and the Palestinian Syriao (Land, Anecdota Syriaca, iv. 141), read Tirnai bar Timai, the Egyptian CatencB as published by Lagarde (1886, p. 101), BAPTIMEXUC IIcoHPI ^■TIMENOC.

Origen connected the name with tj/itJ (6 TTji Tt/i^s itrwvvp^o^) ; Strauss thought of iveTlp.(i)v in v.''* ; others of y^KOa ' unclean ' ; Neu- bauer (Studia Biblica, i. 57) would spell it »i?'0, against the general rule that t = b. The ety- mology is still obscure, and so is the relation of the account of Mark to that of Luke and Matthew. See Schmiedel, Em:. Bibl. i. 489-491 ; Nestle, Mar- ainalien, 1893, pp. 83-92 ; art. Bartim.«US in voL I. p. 248. Eb. Nestle.