# H8556 תִּמְנַת חֶרֶס

תִּמְנַת חֶרֶס (Timnath Chereç), Strong’s H8556: Timnath-Cheres, a place in Palestine KJV: Timnath-heres, Timnath-serah.. Occurs 6 times.

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*Timnath Chereç* — Timnath-Cheres, a place in Palestine

KJV: Timnath-heres, Timnath-serah.

Built from [תִּמְנָה Timnâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H8553) (Timnah, the name of two places in Palestine) + [חֶרֶס chereç](https://besorah.bible/word/H2775) (the itch) — means “portion of (the) sun”

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תִּמְנַת חֶרֶס n.pr.loc. (prob. = (sacred) territory of the Sun); in hill-country of Ephr., westward, Ju 2:9 = foll. [m.cm.aj]
- תִּמְנַת סֶ֫רַח n.pr.loc
- תִּמְנַת סֶ֫רַח n.pr.loc. by metath. from foregoing [m.cm.ai], to avoid idolatr. suggestion

## Where it occurs
- [Joshua 19:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=50) — According to the LORD’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of…
- [Joshua 24:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/24?v=30) — They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north…
- [Judges 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/2?v=9) — They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the…