TAHPENES tä’ pə nez (תַּחְפְּנֵ֥יס, תַּחְפְּנֵ֔ס; LXX Θεκεμιμας, or Θεχεμινας). An Egyp. queen (1 Kings 11:19, 20). She was the wife of a Pharaoh of the twenty-first dynasty, perhaps Siamon (976-958 b.c.). The Pharaoh gave her sister in marriage to Hadad, the Edomite prince who fled from David to Egypt (1 Kings 11:17). Tahpenes cared for her sister’s son, Genubath, in Pharaoh’s house. Among the various explanations of the name Tahpenes, the most likely, following the LXX, is the Egyp. title, t’a-ḥm(t)-ns(w), “the wife of the king.”

Bibliography B. Grdseloff, Annales du Service des Antiquités d’Égypte, XLVII (1947), 211-216.