תֵּימָנִי
Temanite
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Temanite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8489 appears — 8 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 6 verses
- Job 2:11 הַ/תֵּימָנִי֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Job 4:1 הַֽ/תֵּימָנִ֗י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- Job 15:1 הַֽ/תֵּימָנִ֗י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- Job 22:1 הַֽ/תֵּמָנִ֗י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- Job 42:7 הַ/תֵּֽימָנִ֗י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
- Job 42:9 הַ/תֵּֽימָנִ֜י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
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.
“Temanite” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name תימני (Têymânîy). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Job. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Genesis 36:34, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8489 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 6 verses 75%
- Genesis 1 verse 13%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 88%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 13%
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).
- King James Version: Temanite 6×
- American Standard Version: Temanite 6×, Temanites 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Temanite 6×, Temanites 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Temanite 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8489 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H8489 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8489 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8489 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Temanite or Temani = see Teman " southward"
- an inhabitant of Teman located east of Idumea
- a descendant of Teman, the grandson of Esau and a duke of Edom
Word origin
Derived from תימן (Têymân) (H8487) — Teman.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H8489 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/תֵּימָנִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 36:34 | 2 |
| הַֽ/תֵּימָנִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 4:1 | 2 |
| הַ/תֵּֽימָנִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 42:7 | 1 |
| הַ/תֵּֽימָנִ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 42:9 | 1 |
| הַ/תֵּימָנִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 2:11 | 1 |
| הַֽ/תֵּמָנִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 22:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8489, 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 → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Temanite). 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
A man of Teman, the designation of Eliphaz, one of Job's three friends (Job 2:11; 22:1).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
an inhabitant of Teman.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
