of a location (pleasure, beauty); —

1. feminine daughter of Selophehad of Gilead Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11; Joshua 17:3; Θερσα.

2. location old Canaanite city Joshua 12:24, early cap. of Northern Israel (until Omri) 1 Kings 14:17 (תִּרְצָ֫תָה), 1 Kings 15:21,33; 1 Kings 16:6,8,9 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 16:15,17,23, Θαρσα, usually Θερσα; Menahem's base of operations 2 Kings 15:14,16 (Θαρς(ε)ιλα 2 Kings 15:14, Euseb^{Onom. 263, 62, ed. Lag} compare Θαρσιλα, village of Samaritans in Batanea, and Buhl^{Geogr. 247} conjecture Tesîl, 20 miles east of Lake Gennesaret, but this too remote); in simile of beauty (omitted by ᵐ5) Songs 6:4 ("" יְרוּשָׁלַם); — site not certain; conjectured are: Tallûza, just north of Mt. Ebal (Rob^{BR iii. 302 f.}), Tayaƒir, approximately 10 miles further northeast, > e‰-ˆîre, south of Gerizim (see, on these, GASm^{Geogr. 355} Buhl^{Geogr. 203} Aglen^{Hast. DB. under the word}).