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Tel-abib (settlement in Babylonia on Chebar canal, Ezekiel's exile location)

Telassar (Mesopotamian city conquered by Assyria)

Tel-harsha (Babylonian settlement; origin location for returning exiles)

Tel-melah (Babylonian settlement; origin location for returning exiles)

third (Aramaic: one-third or third rank/position)

thirty (Aramaic numeral: 30 days)

bewilderment, confusion, stupefaction (mental/psychological disorientation)

death (sons/children of death: those doomed to die, death-row prisoners)

Temah (family head; returned exiles, temple servants)

Timnath-serah (Joshua's inheritance and burial place in Ephraim)

palm tree, post (tree of Deborah; or upright post/scarecrow)

hire, hire out (engage allies or lovers for payment)

recount, rehearse, celebrate, lament (recite in ritual context)

opposition, hostility, alienation (occasions for enmity; divine estrangement)

Tanhumeth (Judahite captain's father after Jerusalem's fall)

healing, recovery (new flesh forming over wound)

wantonness, caprice; capricious behavior or treatment inflicted upon others

to mock, scoff; onomatopoetic verb suggesting stammering or derisive speech

pledge, hostage; person given as surety or guarantee

mockery, derision; used exclusively of worthless idols as 'works of mockery'

tasteless, unseasoned; lacking flavor (literal) or substance (figurative)

Tiphsah; a city on the Euphrates marking the northeastern boundary of Solomon's realm

to play the tambourine, beat the drum; denominative verb from 'toph' (hand drum)

magistrate, official; Aramaic title for a class of officials in Nebuchadnezzar's administration

cord, line; specifically the scarlet cord marking Rahab's house in Jericho

Tikvah; personal name meaning 'hope,' borne by two post-exilic men

shekel (Aramaic); unit of weight appearing in the 'writing on the wall' (Daniel 5)

Tirhaqah; Ethiopian pharaoh of Egypt's 25th dynasty who opposed Sennacherib

gate, door (Aramaic); entrance to furnace or palace court

Teresh; Persian eunuch who conspired against King Ahasuerus

Tartan; Assyrian military title (field marshal) for supreme commander

Abaddon; Hebrew name for the place/angel of destruction, transliterated into Greek

without burden, not burdensome; causing no financial or personal weight to others

Abiathar; high priest during David's reign, mentioned in a controversial Markan passage

Abilene; tetrarchy in the Anti-Lebanon region governed by Lysanias

well-doing, doing good; the practice of active goodness and beneficence

one who does good, benefactor; substantival adjective for those who actively practice goodness

indignation, vexation; emotional agitation combining pain and anger

without genealogy, of unrecorded descent; having no documented lineage

lowborn, ignoble; of no family or social standing

holiness, sanctity; the quality or state of being set apart as sacred

arms, embrace; the curved arms used for holding or embracing

fishhook; a curved hook for catching fish

purification, ritual cleansing; the process of ceremonial purification

sins of ignorance, unwitting errors; faults committed without full knowledge

purely, sincerely; with pure or unmixed motives

unknown, not known; describing something or someone unrecognized or unfamiliar

illiterate, unlearned; without formal education or scribal training

living outdoors, staying in the fields; particularly of shepherds camping with their flocks

to catch, trap; to ensnare by hunting or cunning (used metaphorically)