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Strong's #8487 - תֵּמָן
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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Teman = “south”
1) son of Eliphaz, grandson of Esau, and one of the dukes of Edom (noun proper masculine)
2) the tribe descended from 1 noted for the wisdom of its people (noun proper masculine)
3) the region occupied by the descendants of 1, located east of Idumea (noun proper locative)
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of a location a northern district of Edom, poetic often = Edom Amos 1:12 ("" אֱדוֺם vAmos 1:11, and בָּצְרָה), Obadiah 9 ("" הַרעֵֿשָׂו), Jeremiah 49:7,20; Ezekiel 25:13 (all "" אֱדוֺם); Habakkuk 3:3 ("" הַרמָּֿארָן); probably also Joshua 12:3; Joshua 13:4 (both D); in Genesis 3:6 (P) as name of an Edomite chief, son of אֱלִיפַז and grandson of Esau Genesis 3:11 = 1 Chronicles 1:36; 1 Chronicles 1:42 = 1 Chronicles 1:53; so תֵּו֯מָן Genesis 36:15. — See further Buhl Edomiter 30.
תֵּמָן see תֵּימָן.