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# תֵּימָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8486

**south** — used 23 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/1514/8486/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֵּימָן: n.f. south, south wind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8486/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Is 43:6 south, south wind, chiefly poet., P & Ez (lit. what is on the right (hand), i.e. as one faces east; v. WetzstVerhandl. d. Berl. Anthrop. Ges. 1878, 390)—abs. ת׳ Zc 9:14 + 6 times (הַתּ׳ only Zc 6:6); תֵּמָן Jb 9:9; c. ה loc. תֵּימָ֫נָה Ex 26:18 + 12 times;— south, southern quarter of sky, לְתֵימָן Jb 39:26 (of flight of bird); of constellations חַדְרֵי ת׳ 9:9; סַעֲרוֹת ת׳ Zc 9:14 whirlwinds of the south; of territory, the south Is 43:6 (opp. צָפוֹן), also אֶרֶץ הַתּ׳ Zc 6:6 (opp. אֶרֶץ צָפוֹן); נֶגְבָּה מִקְצֵה ת׳ Jos 15:1 southward at the end of the south, i.e. in the remotest south (of the land);—see also ii. ת׳. c. ה loc. toward the south, especially in topograph. description (often with other points of compass), פְּאַת נֶ֫גְבָּה תֵּימָ֫נָה Ex 26:18 (P), פ׳ת׳נ׳ Ez 47:19, פ׳ נֶגֶב ת׳ Ex 27:9; 36:23; 38:9 (all P), Ez 47:19; 48:28; + צלע side Ex 26:35, ירך Nu 3:29 (both P); also Nu 2:10; 10:6 (P); יָ֫מָּה וְצָפֹ֫נָה וְת׳ וּמִזְרָחָה Dt 3:27; ה loc. is redundant in דֶּרֶךְ תֵּימָ֫נָה Ez 21:2 turn thy face southward (‖ דָּרוֹם and נֶגֶב). south wind ψ 78:26 (קָדִים in ‖ cl.), Ct 4:16 (צָפוֹן in ‖ cl.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: southward (12); south (4); of \[the\] south (3).

## In the verses

[Job 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/#tree)

עֹֽשֶׂה־עָ֭שׁ כְּסִ֥יל וְכִימָ֗ה וְחַדְרֵ֥י תֵמָֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].makes \[the\].Bear Orion and Pleiades and.\[the\] chambers of.\[the\].south

*JPS 1917:* Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

[Numbers 3:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.29/#tree)

מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת בְּנֵי־קְהָ֖ת יַחֲנ֑וּ עַ֛ל יֶ֥רֶךְ הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן תֵּימָֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* the.clans of.the.descendants of.Kohath they.will.encamp at the.side of the.tabernacle southward

*JPS 1917:* The families of the sons of Kohath were to pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8486.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8486/): 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).