What is "tirzah"

Tirzah is a Hebrew word meaning "she is my delight." In the Bible it is the name of a woman, one of the daughters of Zelophehad.

Tirzah or Thyrza may refer to:

• Tirzah, a personage of the Bible
• To Tirzah, a poem by William Blake
• Tirzah (ancient city)
• Tirzah, a city of South Carolina
• the minor planet 267 Tirza
• the novel Thyrza by George Gissing

Tirzah was a town in the Samarian highlands NE of Shechem; it is generally identified with Tell el-Far'ah (North), NE of modern Nablus, in the immediate vicinity of the Palestinian village of Wadi al-Far'a and the Far'a refugee camp. It is located in a valley named Wadi Far'a in Arabic and Tirzah Valley or Nahal Tirza in Hebrew.