Word

תֵּימָן

têymân · H8486 · Hebrew · 23 occurrences

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Place

Negebfirst named in Genesis 12:937 verses

Meanings

south

A reference to the direction to the right of a person facing the sunrise

Examples
Exodus 26:35 “And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.
Deuteronomy 3:27 ‘Go up to the top of Pisgah and raise your eyes to the west, the north, the south, and the east, and see it with your eyes; for you shall not cross over this Jordan.
Joshua 12:3 and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth toward the east, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, that is, the Salt Sea, eastward toward Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;
southwind

Wind, emanating from the south

Examples
Psalm 78:26 He made the east wind blow in the sky And by His power He directed the south wind.
Song of Solomon 4:16 “Awake, north wind, And come, wind of the south; Make my garden breathe out fragrance, May its balsam oils flow. May my beloved come into his garden And eat its delicious fruits!”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָהַגto lead 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דֶּגֶלbanner 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 3
מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 5 groups

חֶדֶרroom 1
סַעַרstorm 1
פֵּאָהside 1
קָצֶהend, edge, border 1
אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1

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 4 entries

Spatial Referents003002005: This noun denotes the south side of a structure, as in Exodus 26:18's instruction to make twenty boards for the tabernacle's south side.
Blow002002001002: תֵּימָן (têymân, H8486) is a common noun denoting the south, or the south wind. The quotation "the boards for the south side shall be twenty boards" at Exodus 26:18 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Blow" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תֵּימָן (Têymân, H8487) (the proper name "Teman") in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Names of People003001007: תֵּימָן (têymân, H8486) is a common noun denoting the south, or the south wind. The quotation "the boards for the south side shall be twenty boards" at Exodus 26:18 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Names of People" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תֵּימָן (Têymân, H8487) (the proper name "Teman") in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Names of Locations003001010: תֵּימָן (têymân, H8486) is a common noun denoting the south, or the south wind. The quotation "the boards for the south side shall be twenty boards" at Exodus 26:18 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Names of Locations" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with תֵּימָן (Têymân, H8487) (the proper name "Teman") in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8486. teman I. תֵּימָן noun feminineIsa 43:6 south, south wind, chiefly poetic, P &…

H8486. teman
I. תֵּימָן noun feminineIsa 43:6 south, south wind, chiefly poetic, P & Ezekiel (literally what is on the right (hand), i.e. as one faces east; see WetzstVerhandi. d. Berl. Anthrop. Ges. 1878, 390) — absolute ׳ת Zec 9:14 Zec 9:6t. (׳הַתּ only Zec 6:6); תֵּמָן Job 9:9; with ה locative תֵּימָ֫נָה Exo 26:18 Exo 26:12t.; —
1. a. south, southern quarter of sky, לְתֵימָן Job 39:26 (of flight of bird); of constellations ת ׳חַדְרֵי Job 9:9; ת ׳סַעֲרוֺת Zec 9:14 whirlwinds of the south; of territory, the south Isa 43:6 (opposed to צָפוֺן), also הַתּ ׳אֶרֶץ Zec 6:6 (opposed to צָפוֺן אֶרֶץ); ת מִקְצֵה ׳נֶגְכָּה Jos 15:1 southward at the end of the south, i.e. in the remotest south (of the land); — see also II. ׳ת.
b. with ה locative toward the south, especially in topograph. description (often with other points of compass), תֵּימָ֫נָה נֶ֫גְבָּה מְּאַת Exo 26:18 (P), ׳פ ׳ת ׳נ Eze 47:19, ׳פ ת ׳נֶגֶב Exo 27:9; Exo 36:33; Exo 38:9 (all P), Eze 47:19; Eze 48:28; + צלע side Exo 26:35, ירך Num 3:29 (both P); also Num 2:10; Num 10:6 (P); וְת וְצָפֹ֫נָה ׳יָ֫מָּה וּמִזְרָחָה Deu 3:27; ה locative in redundant in תֵּימָ֫נָה דֶּרֶךְ Eze 21:2 turn they face southward (|| דָּרוֺם and נֶגֶב).
2 south wind Psa 78:26 (קָדִים in || clause), Son 4:16 (צָפוֺן in || clause)

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

Topical studies with this word 4 entries

Blow2 occurrences Names of People0 occurrences Names of Locations0 occurrences Spatial Referents21 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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0