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Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)· Public Domain

(gift), one of the four sons of Shimon, whose family is reckoned in the genealogies of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:20) (B.C. 1451.)

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Tilon

Tilon ti'-lon (tilon; Kethibh, Qere; Codex Vaticanus Inon; Codex Alexandrinus Thilan; Lucian Tholeim: A son of Shimon (1Ch 4:20). ⇒See a list of verses on TILON in the Bible. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Tilon

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^ersion…

References

  1. Orr, J. (ed.) (1915) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Chicago: Howard-Severance Company. [Public Domain]
  2. Easton, M.G. (1893) Easton's Bible Dictionary. 3rd edn. Thomas Nelson. [Public Domain]
  3. Nave, O.J. (1897) Nave's Topical Bible. Topical Bible Publishing Co.. [Public Domain]
  4. Hastings, J. (ed.) (1909) A Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. [Public Domain]
  5. Smith, W. (ed.) (1884) Smith's Bible Dictionary. London: John Murray. [Public Domain]
  6. Fausset, A.R. (1878) Fausset's Bible Dictionary. [Public Domain]A Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia

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