TIPHSAH tĭf’ sə (תִּפְסַח׃֙). The word means “a ford, and the place was prob. Thapsacus (Amphipolis of Seleucid times), modern Dibseh, an important crossing on the middle Euphrates. It is claimed in 1 Kings 4:24 that Solomon’s kingdom in Israel’s “golden age” reached to this strategic caravan town. There is no means of knowing how strongly the remote frontier was held. A great E-W trade route, moving around the Fertile Crescent, had a staging post here. Xenophon mentions the place (Anabasis 1.4.11). The Tiphsah mentioned in 2 Kings 15:16, as having been attacked by Menahem of Israel, could be the same place. Others, without lower critical justification, amend to “Tippuah” (e.g. RSVmg.).