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תֵּימָא

Têymâʼ · H8485 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Tema

    A man who was a son of Ishmael, son of Abraham, regarded as the founder of a nation bearing the same name

    Examples

    Genesis 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

    1 Chronicles 1:30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

  2. Tema

    An ethnic group known for cutting the hair on their temples, regarded as descendants of one of Abraham's sons

    Examples

    Jeremiah 25:23 and to Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who trim the corners of their hair;

  3. Tema

    Region, identified with Tayma, an oasis; located in N Arabia; regarded as founded by one of Abraham's sons

    Examples

    Job 6:19 “The caravans of Tema looked, The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

    Isaiah 21:14 Bring water for the thirsty, You inhabitants of the land of Tema; Meet the fugitive with bread.

How it’s used In 1 role

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the word studied the word it goes with

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries
Names of People003001007
This proper name identifies Tema, a son of Ishmael, as in Genesis 25:15.
Names of Groups003001006
The same name also identifies the caravans or people of Tema, as in Job 6:19's reference to the caravans of Tema looking in vain for water.
Names of Locations003001010
The name also identifies the territory of Tema, as in Isaiah 21:14's call to bring water for the thirsty inhabitants of the land of Tema.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8485. Tema תֵּימָא proper name, of a territory or people (Old Aramaic תימא Lzb385; in As…
H8485. Tema
תֵּימָא proper name, of a territory or people (Old Aramaic תימא Lzb385; in As Têma DlPa 301f. SchrKGF 261 ff;= south country, √ ימא (compare תֵּימָן, √ ימן) according to NöEncy.Bib ISHMAEL); — ת אֶרֶץ ׳ישְׁבֵי Isa 21:14, people Jer 25:23; ׳ת 'son' of Ishmael Gen 25:5 || 1Ch 1:30; תֵּמָא אָרְחוֺת (l. ׳אֹרְ) Job 6:19; Θαιμαν. Modern Teyma, northwest Arabia, DoughtyArab.Des.i, pass., especially 284-299 WilsonHast. DB TEMA, and on inscription found there EutNab. Inschr. 35 CISii.No.113.114 NöSBAK, 1884, 813f. HalRÉJ xii, 111 ff. Cooke195ff.
I, II. תֵּימְנִי תֵּימָנִי, תֵּימָן, see ימן.
[תִּימָרָה] see תמר.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Names of Groups1 occurrenceNames of People2 occurrencesNames of Locations2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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