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# תֵּימָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8487

**south** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

south [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8487/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֵּימָן²: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8487/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. (m. et) loc. a N. district of Edom, poet. often = Edom Am 1:12 (‖ אֱדוֹם v 11, and בָּצְרָה), Ob 9 (‖ הַר־עֵשָׂו), Je 49:7, 20; Ez 25:13 (all ‖ אֱדוֹם Hb 3:3 (‖ הַר־פָּארָן; prob. also Jos 12:3; 13:4 (both D); in Gn 3:6 (P) as name of an Edomite chief, son of אֱלִיפַז and grandson of Esau v 11 = 1 Ch 1:36; v 42 = 1 Ch 1:53; so תֵּומָ֯ן Gn 36:15.—Vid. further BuhlEdomiter 30; cf. תֵּימָא (p. 1066).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Teman (8); O Teman (1); \[were\] Teman (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.42/#tree)

אַלּ֥וּף קְנַ֛ז אַלּ֥וּף תֵּימָ֖ן אַלּ֥וּף מִבְצָֽר׃

*Word for word:* chief Kenaz chief Teman chief Mibzar

*JPS 1917:* the chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar;

[1 Chronicles 1:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.53/#tree)

אַלּ֥וּף קְנַ֛ז אַלּ֥וּף תֵּימָ֖ן אַלּ֣וּף מִבְצָֽר׃

*Word for word:* chief Kenaz chief Teman chief Mibzar

*JPS 1917:* the chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8487.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8487/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).