Teman תֵּימָן

Teman (Hebrew תֵּימָן, Strong's H8486) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “south”. It occurs 23 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Teman, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 26:18
  And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
• Exodus 26:35
  And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.
• Exodus 27:9
  And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
• Exodus 36:23
  And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:He constructed twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
• Exodus 38:9
  And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,

Numbers

• Numbers 2:10
  On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard:
• Numbers 3:29
  The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,
• Numbers 10:6
  When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 3:27
  Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.

Joshua

• Joshua 12:3
  And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth–jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah:as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
• Joshua 13:4
  From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
• Joshua 15:1
  This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.Now the allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah extended to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at the extreme southern boundary:

Job

• Job 9:9
  Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
• Job 39:26
  Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

Psalms

• Psalm 78:26
  He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 4:16
  Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 43:6
  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 20:46
  Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
• Ezekiel 47:19
  And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.
• Ezekiel 48:28
  And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 6:6
  The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
• Zechariah 9:14
  And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).