How to Pronounce Tema

What does Tema mean?

Tema means “admiration; perfection; consummation”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Who was Tema?

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’.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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