TIRSA
“grace”, “charm”.
(a) The youngest of the five daughters of Zelophehad (Num. 26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Josh. 17:3).
(b) City renowned for its beauty (Song 6:4). Joshua captured it from the Canaanites (Joshua 12:24).
Jeroboam I made it his residence (1 Kings 14:17) and it became the capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kings 15:21, 33; 16:6, 8, 9, 15, 17), but he left to be so when Omri had built Samaria to establish his residence there (1 Kings 16:23, 24; 2 Kings 15:14, 16).
Plausible identification: the great hill of Tell el-Fãr’ah, about 11 km northeast of Nablus (Shechem).