ti'Rathites, the, - one of the three families of scribes residing at Jabez, (1 Chronicles 2:55 ) the others being the Shimeathites and Sucathites

Tirathites - The Vulgate translation is not tenable, Tirathites ("the singers"), Shimeathites ("those repeating in song what they have heard"), and the Suchathites ("dwellers in tents")

Jabez (2) - A town where the scribes belonging to the families of the Kenites resided (1 Chronicles 2:55; a school said by the Targum to have been founded by Othniel, called also Jabez; Rechab is made Rechabiah son of Eliezer, Moses' son): the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites; they came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab

Shimeath - The Shimeathites were a family or division of the tribe of Caleb ( 1 Chronicles 2:55 )

Kenites - Of these Kenites were the Rechabites, the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Suchathites, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:55 , whose chief office was that of scribes