STRONGS NUMBER H8485


Word Summary
Tema: a son of Ishmael, also his desc. and the region settled by them
Original Word: תֵּימָא
Transliteration: Tema
Phonetic Spelling: (tay-maw')
Part of Speech: proper name, of a territory or people
Short Definition: a son of Ishmael, also his desc. and the region settled by them
Meaning: Tema -- a son of Ishmael, also his descendants and the region settled by them
Strong's Concordance
Tema

Or Temao {tay-maw'}; probably of foreign derivation; Tema, a son of Ishmael, and the region settled by him -- Tema.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8485. Tema

תֵּימָאproper 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 ׳ישְׁבֵיIsaiah 21:14, people Jeremiah 25:23; ׳ת‎ 'son' of Ishmael Genesis 25:5 "" 1 Chronicles 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.113.114SBAK, 1884, 813f. HalRÉJ xii, 111 ff. Cooke195ff.

I, II. תֵּימְנִי תֵּימָנִי, תֵּימָן,‎ see ימן‎.

[תִּימָרָה‎] see תמר‎.