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He was the founder of what is called “the second Assyrian empire,” an empire meant to embrace the whole world, the centre of which should be Nineveh. He died B.C. 728, and was succeeded by a general of his army, Ulula, who assumed the name Shalmaneser IV.‌‌

•TIMAEUS defiled, the father of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46).

•TIMBREL (Hebrews toph), a small drum or tambourine; a tabret (q.v.). The antiquity of this musical instrument appears from the scriptural allusions to it (Genesis 31:27; Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34, etc.) (See MUSIC.)

•TIMNAH a portion. (1.) A town of Judah (Joshua 15:10). The Philistines took possession of it in the days of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18). It was about 20 miles west of Jerusalem. It has been identified with Timnatha of Dan (Joshua 19:43), and also with Timnath (Judges 14:1,5).

(2.) A city in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:57)= Tibna near Jeba’. (3.) A “duke” or sheik of Edom (Genesis 36:40).

•TIMNATH Genesis 38:12,14. (1.) Hebrews Timnathah, which is appropriately rendered in the Revised Version, Timnah, a town in Judah.

(2.) The town where Samson sojourned, probably identical with “Timnah” (1) (Judges 14:1-18).

•TIMNATH-HERES portion of the sun, where Joshua was buried (Judges 2:9). It was “in the mount of Ephraim, in the north side of the hill Gaash,” 10 miles south-west of Shechem. The same as the following.

•TIMNATH-SERAH remaining portion, the city of Joshua in the hill country of Ephraim, the same as Timnath-heres (Joshua 19:50; 24:30). “Of all sites I have seen,” says Lieut. Colossians Conder, “none is so striking as that of Joshua’s home, surrounded as it is with deep valleys and

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