תֵּימָן
Teman
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8487 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew name תימן centers on the idea of “Teman.” Debuting at Genesis 36:11, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 11 verses across 7 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Genesis (27%), then 1 Chronicles and Jeremiah. For the data behind this summary, explore 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8487 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 3 verses 27%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 18%
- Jeremiah 2 verses 18%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 55%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 27%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Teman 8×
- American Standard Version†: Teman 8×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Teman 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Teman 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8487 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8487 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8487 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8487 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
תימן I
- 1.
- a. 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׳. e.g. Job 39:26
- b. 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). e.g. Exodus 26:18
- 2. south wind ψ 78:26 (קָדִים in ‖ cl.), Ct 4:16 (צָפוֹן in ‖ cl.) e.g. Psalms 78:26
תימן II (m. et) loc. a N. district of Edom, poet. often = Edom Am 1
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. 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;—
II. 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).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תימן (têymân) (H8486) — south.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תימן
- , v. תִּימוֹז
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H8487 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/תֵימָ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:12 | 2 |
| תֵּימָ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:42 | 2 |
| מִ/תֵּימָ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 25:13 | 1 |
| מִ/תֵּימָ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Habakkuk 3:3 | 1 |
| תֵימָ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 49:20 | 1 |
| תֵּימָ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Obadiah 1:9 | 1 |
| תֵּימָ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:11 | 1 |
| תֵּימָ֤ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:36 | 1 |
| תֵּימָן֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8487, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Teman). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Id. (1.) A grandson of Esau, one of the "dukes of Edom" (Gen. 36:11, 15, 42).
(2.) A place in Southern Idumea, the land of "the sons of the east," frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It was noted for the wisdom of its inhabitants (Amos 1:12; Obad. 1:8; Jer. 49:7; Ezek. 25:13). It was divided from the hills of Paran by the low plain of Arabah (Hab. 3:3).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the south).
+ A son of Eliphaz, son of Esau by Adah. (Genesis 36:11,15,41; 1 Chronicles 1:36,53) (B.C. about 1792.) + A country, and probably a city, named after the Edomite phylarch, or from which the phylarch took his name. The Hebrew signifies "south," etc., see (Job 9:9; Isaiah 43:6) and it is probable that the land of Teman was a southern portion of the land of Edom, or, in a wider sense, that of the sons of the east. Teman is mentioned in five places by the prophets, in four of which it is connected with Edom and in two with Dedan. (Jeremiah 49:7,8; Ezekiel 25:13) Eusebius and Jerome mention Teman as a town in their day distant 15 miles from Petra, and a Roman post.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
Temani, the south; Africa; perfect
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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