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and about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) south-west of Bîr el-Leimûn. Access to the site is now restricted, as it sits in a military area. Early explorers and historical geographers identified the ruin Kh. Tibna with the biblical town of Timnah, thought to be associated with stories of the biblical
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visited the site in the winter of 1924–25, which he described as "Khirbet Tibneh, the
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went down to Timnah in order to find a wife. On his way there, he tore apart a lion. Samson married a "girl of the
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have migrated to the site now known as
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débris," although he was unable to come-up with Jewish potsherds. In the 1940s, archaeologist
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