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Tema @ south; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called kjv@Genesis:25:15; kjv@1Chronicles:1:30; kjv@Job:6:19; kjv@Isaiah:21:14; kjv@Jeremiah:25:23) which settled at a place to which he gave his name, some 250 miles south-east of Edom, on the route between Damascus and Mecca, in the northern part of the Arabian peninsula, toward the Syrian desert; the modern Teyma'.



Teman @ id.

(1.) A grandson of Esau, one of the "dukes of Edom" kjv@Genesis:36:11 kjv@Genesis:36:15, 42).

(2.) A place in Southern Idumea, the land of "the sons of the east," frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It was noted for the wisdom of its inhabitants kjv@Amos:1:12; kjv@Obadiah:1:8; kjv@Jeremiah:49:7; kjv@Ezekiel:25:13). It was divided from the hills of Paran by the low plain of Arabah kjv@Habakkuk:3:3).



Temanite @ a man of Teman, the designation of Eliphaz, one of Job's three friends kjv@Job:2:11 kjv@Job:22:1).