Bible Person
Meaning: admiration; perfection; consummation · Male · 2 cross references
Tema is one of Ishmael's sons and the ancestral name behind an Arabian tribe. He belongs to the wider Abrahamic family outside the covenant line of Isaac. First appears in Gen 25:15.1
AI summary: Tema matters because his cross references place him among the sons of Ishmael, preserving the breadth of Abraham's descendants beyond Israel. Even without a narrative episode, the entry helps map the tribal world linked to the patriarchal family. Taken together, the material presents Tema as an Ishmaelite ancestor in the remembered geography of Arabia.1
Central Figure
Tema
Meaning: admiration; perfection; consummation
Siblings
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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.