Tema

Tema Scripture - Isaiah 21:14

The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled....

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Tema Scripture - Job 6:19

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them....

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Tema Scripture - Genesis 25:15

Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:...

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Tema in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

te'-ma (tema', "south country"; Thaiman): The name of a son of Ishmael (Gen 25:15; 1 Ch 1:30), of the tribe descended from him (Jer 25:23), and of the place where they dwelt (Job 6:19; Isa 21:14). This last was a locality in Arabia which probably corresponds to the modern Teima' (or Tayma' (see Doughty, Arabia Deserta, I, 285)), an oasis which...

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Tema in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Ishmael Ge 25:15; 1Ch 1:30 -2. A people of Arabia, probably descendants from Tema, Ishmael's son Job 6:19; Isa 21:14; Jer 25:23...

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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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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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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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Tema in Hitchcock's Bible Names

admiration; perfection; consummation...

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