Citations:tahash

citations added in 2024



 * unitalicized, but in the context of discussing the Hebrew word and its possible meaning



citations added in 2010
None of the following citations at source renders tahash in italics or boldface (except as a title,) or treats it as other than the ordinary English word for Hebrew T'H'S.


 * 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary: "Sandals":
 * 'Sandals were also made of seal-skin (Ezekiel 16:10; lit. tahash, "leather"...)'


 * 1938, 1948, 1952, 1961 Socino Babylonian Talmud, Translated into English with notes, glossary and indices, under the editorship of Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, B.A., Ph.D., D.Lit.:
 * Shabbath 28: Folio 28a:
 * 'R. Abba objected: R. Judah said:  There were two coverings, one of dyed rams' skins, and one of tahash skins.'


 * 1970, 1986 The New American Bible: Translated from the Original Languages with Critical Use of All the Ancient Sources, by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine:
 * Exodus 25,5: 'rams' skins dyed red, and tahash* skins; acacia wood;'
 * (footnote): * Tahash:  perhaps the name of a marine animal, such as the dugong or the porpoise.  The Greek and Latin versions took it for the color hyacinth


 * May 1988 The Burnt Book by Marc-Alain Ouaknin and Llewellyn Brown, page 248
 * '...object to be covered by the Parokhet, then by a tahash skin cover, then a violet cloth...'


 * Oct 1988 Collegeville Bible Commentary: Based on the New American Bible With Revised New Testament  by Diane Bergant and Robert J. Harris, page 72:
 * 'Finally, ramskins dyed red covered the whole building, and tahash skins (light leather hides), cover the ram skins.'


 * Nov 1988 Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Life (Lifecycles, Vol 2) by Debra Orenskin and Jane Rachel Litman, page 134:
 * '...muscles wet and bright, Tans and smooths the tahash skins; Leather-lunged, he croons an unending song...'


 * 1992 The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 6 Si-Z, pub. Doubleday, page 307:
 * ' TAHASH Heb. tahas '


 * 2001 The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Translated from the German Manuscript by Henrietta Szold:  The Creation of the World:  The Sixth Day:  line 166:
 * 'Once the Tabernacle was completed, the tahash disappeared. It had a horn on its forehead, was gaily colored like the turkey cock, and belonged to the class of clean animals.'


 * 2007 Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition: TAHASH:
 * 'Some hold that it is the tahash mentioned in the Bible and some the zemer of Deut. 14:5. The okapi belongs to the same family as the giraffe and has the same characteristics.'