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# תֵּימָנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8489

**Temani** — used 8 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

Temani [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8489/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֵּימָנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8489/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. always c. art. אֱלִיפַז הַתֵּימָנִי (v. supr.) Jb 2:11; 4:1; 15:1; 42:7, 9 = אֱל׳ הַתֵּמָנִי 22:1; = n.pr.coll. אֶרֶין הַתּ׳ Gn 36:34 the land of the Temanites = 1 Ch 1:45.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Temanite (6); the Temanite\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Job 4:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

[Job 15:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8489.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8489/): 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).