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Tarphon, or Tryphon a Jewish rabbi of the 2d century A.D., belonged to a sacerdotal family. He was a friend and contemporary of rabbi Akiba, and for some time rector of the school at Lydda. He was noted as a bitter enemy of Christianity, and declared that, although the gospels and the other writings of … Continue reading “Tarphon, or Tryphon”

Tarpelites, The Tar’pelites, The. A race of Assyrian colonists, who were planted in the cites of Samaria, after the captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel. Ezr 4:9. They have not been identified with any certainty. Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Tarpelites Ezr 4:9. Colonists planted in Samaria after Israel’s deportation by Assyria. Conjectured to be the Tapyri, a Median tribe E. of Elymais (Ptolemy vi. 2, section 6), or the Tarpetes, a Maeotic race (Strabo, 11:495). Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary Tarpelites TARPELITES.One of the peoples settled in the cities of Samaria (Ezr 4:9); text doubtful. … Continue reading “Tarpelites”

Tarpelite (Chald. only in the plur. emphat. Tarpelaye’, ; Sept. v.r. ; Vulg. Tharphalcei), the Aramsean designation of a race of colonists who were planted in the cities of Samaria after the captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel (Ezr 4:9). Junius and others have found a kind of resemblance in name to the Tarpelites … Continue reading “Tarpelite”

Tarnow DIOCESE OF TARNOW (TARNOVIENSIS). Diocese in western Galicia, Austria. The See of Posen, founded in 968 by Duke Miecyslaw, was the only one in Poland until 1100. In that year Otto III and Duke Boleslaw Chabry founded the Sees of Gnesen and Cracow, to which also belonged what is to-day western Galicia. When in … Continue reading “Tarnow”

Tarnov, Paul a German doctor and professor of theology, uncle of Johann, was born April 29, 1562, at Grevismihlen, and died at Rostock, March 6,1633. He is the author of, In Joann. Evang. Commentarius (Rostock, 1629): Libri III de Conjugio .(ibid. 1614): De Sacros. Ministerio Libri III (ibid. 1623). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Literatur, … Continue reading “Tarnov, Paul”

Tarnov, Johann a German doctor and professor of theology, was born April 19, 1586, at Grevismuhlen, in Mecklenburg, and died Jan. 22, 1629, at Rostock, where he had lectured since 1614. He wrote: Declaratio eorum quae ad Dicti Esai. c. 45 5. 8 Sensu Literali Investig. in Exercit. Biblic. allata sunt (Rostock, 1621): Exercilt. Biblic. … Continue reading “Tarnov, Johann”

Tarnoczy, Maximilian Von a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, was born Oct. 24,1806, at Schwaz, in Tyrol. Having graduated at the gymnasium at Innsbruck, he entered, in 1824, the clerical seminary at Salzburg, and received the first orders in 1829. He completed his studies at Vienna, and, after having been honored in 1832 with the theological doctorate, … Continue reading “Tarnoczy, Maximilian Von”

Tarkin, Saint (Talarican.) Bishop of Sodor (including the western islands of Scotland), was probably of purely Pictish origin, though the Aberdeen Breviary (1509) says he was born in Ireland. The legend in the Breviary states that he was raised to the episcopate by Pope Gregory; and Adam King’s Kalendar (1558) styles him “bischop and confess. … Continue reading “Tarkin, Saint”

Tarka (Skr.) Reasoning, logic; also a name for the Nyaya (q.v.). — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy