Timna, or Timnah:
(restraint).
(1.) A concubine of Eliphaz son of Esau, and mother of Amalek (Genesis 36:12) it may be presumed that she was the same as Timna sister of Lotan. Ibid. verse 22, and (1 Chronicles 1:39). (B.C. after 1800)
(2.) A duke or phylarch of Edom in the last list in Genesis 36:40-43; 1 Chronicles 1:51-54. Timnah was probably the name of a place or a district.
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