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Teman in Easton's Bible Dictionary

id. (1.) A grandson of Esau, one of the "dukes of Edom" (Gen. 36:11, 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 (Amos 1:12; Obad. 1:8; Jer. 49:7; Ezek. 25:13). It was divided from the hills of Paran by the low plain...

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Tatnai in Hitchcock's Bible Names

that gives; the overseer of the gifts and tributes...

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Tema in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a desert), the ninth son of Ishmael, Ge 25:15; 1Ch 1:30 whence the tribe called after him, mentioned in Job 6:19; Jer 25:23 and also the land occupied by this tribe. Isa 21:13,14 (B.C. after 1850.) The name is identified with Teyma, a small town on the confines of Syria....

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Teman in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("on the right".) So south to one facing east. Son of Eliphaz, Esau's son (Genesis 36:11); a duke of Edom. The southern part of Idumea. Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:3) confirms this southern position, from which as the starting point in the region of Mount Paran the Holy One's coming is northwards. Ezekiel 25:13 translated "I will make it desolate fro...

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Telem in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

te'-lem (Telem; Telem): A city in the Negeb "toward the border of Edom," belonging to Judah (Josh 15:24). In Septuagint of 2 Sam 3:12 Abner is said to send messengers to David at Thelam (Thailam); this would seem to be the same place and also to be identical with the Telaim and Telam of Saul (see TELAIM). It is probably the same as the Ta...

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Tema in Easton's Bible Dictionary

south; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called (Gen. 25:15; 1 Chr. 1:30; Job 6:19; Isa. 21:14; Jer. 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 ...

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Teman in Hitchcock's Bible Names

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Telem in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A city of the tribe of Judah Jos 15:24 -2. A porter who put away (divorced) his Gentile wife Ezr 10:24...

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Tema in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("desert land".) Ishmael's ninth son (Genesis 25:15). Founder of an Arab tribe in the northern Arabia Deserta, on the border of the Syrian desert (Job 6:19); "the troops of Tema" are the caravans on the direct road anxiously "looking for" the return of their companions gone to look for water; the failure of it in the wady and the disappointmen...

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Temeni in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

tem'-e-ni, te'-me-ni (temeni, Baer, timeni; Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus Thaiman; Lucian, Thaimanei): The word temeni means a southerner, i.e. of Southern Judah; compare TEMAN (patronymic temani), the name of Edom (Gen 36:11, ete), the "son" of Ashhur (1 Ch 4:6)....

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