THADAL (Hebr. Tidh'al, Septuagint Θαργάλ). — King of the gōjim, or “of the nations,” who, Amrafel (v.) Arioch (v.) of 'Ellāsār, Chodorlahomor (v.) of Elam, carried out military campaigns in Canaan with varying success in the time of Abraham (Gen. 14).
The name is usually associated with that of
Tudhaljaš, borne by several Hittite rulers, who in fact at various times possessed such extensive empires that they could be called “kings of the peoples”; but the identification is even more difficult than in the case of the related kings, Amrafel (v.).
BIBL.: F. T. Böhl, Tud'alia I, in Zeitschr. f. d. altt. Wissenschaft., 42 (1934), pp. 148–53.