H8485H

תֵּימָא

te.maN:N--L

Tema

§ Tema = "desert" the land settled by Tema the son of Ishmael

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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); — ׳ישְׁבֵי אֶרֶץ ת Isa 21:14, people Jer 25:23 ׳ת 'son' of Ishmael Gen 25:5 || 1Chr 1:30 אָרְחוֺת תֵּמָא (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. Cooke195 ff.


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


[תִּימָרָה] see תמר.


3 occurrences

Job (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1)