Meaning: Its source is a Hebrew expression meaning "Delight, pleasantness, cypress tree."

Languages: This girl's name is used in Hebrew.

Alternative Spellings: Tirsa and Tirzha

Variant Forms: Terza, Thersa, Thirza, Tirshka and Tirza

Narrative: In the Bible, Tirzah is the name of a city of Israeli kings (Josh. 12:24 and 1 Kings 16:23-24) and was also the name of the first woman to inherit property from her father.

Tirzah was one of the five daughters of Zelophehad who asked for and received an inheritance. In the movie Ben Hur, based on General Lew Wallace's best selling novel,Tirzah was Juda's sister.