Bible Dictionary
TAHASH
Tahash was a son of Nahor by his concubine Reumah. The name is also associated with a Hebrew term for a type of leather or the animal from which it came.
Definition
Tahash was a son of Nahor by his concubine Reumah. The same Hebrew term denotes a kind of leather or skin and perhaps the animal that supplied it.
Biblical Usage
Tahash appears in the genealogy of Nahor’s descendants.
Historical Background
The leather term has been connected with the dugong, and Tahash has also been identified by one proposal with Tichis in Egypt on the Orontes north of Kadesh.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>ta'-hash (tachash; Tochos; the King James Version Thahash): A son of Nahor by his concubine Reumah (Ge 22:24). The word tachash means a kind of leather or skin, and perhaps the animal yielding it, probably the "dugong" (compare Brown, Briggs, and Driver). Tachash has been identified by Winckler with Tichis (Egypt), located on the Orontes, North of Kadesh.</p>