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Talmai

תַּלְמַי · tal.may · H8526G“my furrow; that suspends the waters; heap of waters” Hitchcock's 18693 mentions in 3 books, most in Numbers (1)

Who he was

Talmai is mentioned in Numbers 13:22, Joshua 15:14, and Judges 1:10 as one of the Anakim who were the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Hebron. The Anakim were giants, descendants of Anak, and were feared by the Israelite spies. Talmai, along with Sheshai and Ahiman, was a king of Hebron. After the conquest of Canaan, Caleb drove out these three Anakim kings when the city was allotted to him and the tribe of Judah.

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Family

FatherAnakSiblingsAhiman, Sheshai
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Every mention

3 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)

Numbers 1 mention

Numbers 13:22They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Joshua 1 mention

Joshua 15:14Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

Judges 1 mention

Judges 1:10Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron. (The name of Hebron before that was Kiriath Arba.) They struck Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

What the dictionary says

Abounding in furrows.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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