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Meaning: admiration; perfection; consummation · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Tema was the Arabian oasis region and tribe descended from Ishmael. It is important because it appears in desert trade imagery and in prophetic attention to Arabia's peoples. First appears in Job 6:19.1
AI summary: Tema matters because it joins genealogy, desert route life, and prophetic geography. Job, Isaiah, and Jeremiah use the name in ways that evoke caravans, water, and the life of Arabia's interior. The cross references present Tema as an Arabian oasis-tribe of route, refuge, and regional memory.1
South; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called (Gen. 25:15; 1 Chr. 1:30; Job 6:19; Isa. 21:14; Jer. 25:23) which settled at a place to which he gave his name, some 250 miles south-east of Edom, on the route between Damascus and Mecca, in the northern part of the Arabian peninsula, toward the Syrian desert; the modern Teyma’. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.