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•TESTAMENT occurs twelve times in the New Testament (Hebrews 9:15, etc.) as the rendering of the Gr. diatheke, which is twenty times rendered “covenant” in the Authorized Version, and always so in the Revised Version. The Vulgate translates incorrectly by testamentum, whence the names “Old” and “New Testament,” by which we now designate the two sections into which the Bible is divided. (See BIBLE.)‌‌‌‌

•TESTIMONY (1.) Witness or evidence (2 Thessalonians 1:10).

(2.) The Scriptures, as the revelation of God’s will (2 Kings 11:12; Psalm 19:7; 119:88; Isaiah 8:16, 20).

(3.) The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Joshua 22:10).

•TESTIMONY, TABERNACLE OF the tabernacle, the great glory of which was that it contained “the testimony”, i.e., the “two tables” (Exodus 38:21). The ark in which these tables were deposited was called the “ark of the testimony” (40:3), and also simply the “testimony” (27:21; 30:6).

•TETRARCH strictly the ruler over the fourth part of a province; but the word denotes a ruler of a province generally (Matthew 14:1; Luke 3:1, 19; 9:7; Acts 13:1). Herod and Phasael, the sons of Antipater, were the first tetrarchs in Palestine. Herod the tetrarch had the title of king (Matthew 14:9).

•THADDAEUS breast, the name of one of the apostles (Mark 3:18), called “Lebbaeus” in Matthew 10:3, and in Luke 6:16, “Judas the brother of James;” while John (14:22), probably referring to the same person, speaks of “Judas, not Iscariot.” These different names all designate the same person, viz., Jude or Judas, the author of the epistle.

•THAHASH a badger, a son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother (Genesis 22:24).

•THARSHISH (1 Kings 10:22; 22:48). See TARSHISH.

•THEATRE only mentioned in Acts 19:29, 31. The ruins of this theatre at Ephesus still exist, and they show that it was a magnificent structure, capable of accommodating some 56,700 persons. It was the largest

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