תֵּימָן teman
Hebrew word for “south” · Strong’s H8486 · used 23 times in 22 verses
Meaning
1) south, southward, whatever is on the right (so the southern quarter), south wind;
How it is translated
Glosses given for teman in context, with how often each is used:
- south -ward 12
- south 8
- south wind 2
- will be south -ward 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exodus | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Ezekiel | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Numbers | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Joshua | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Job | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Zechariah | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Song of Solomon | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 26 (2), Exodus 27 (1), Exodus 36 (1), Exodus 38 (1), Numbers 2 (1), Numbers 3 (1), Numbers 10 (1), Deuteronomy 3 (1), Joshua 12 (1), Joshua 13 (1)
Forms
- תימנה 12
- תימן 4
- ותימנה 1
- ומתימן 1
- מתימן 1
- תמן 1
- לתימן 1
- ולתימן 1
- התימן 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with teman more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- נֶגֶב negev “south” 8
- פֵּאָה peah “side” 6
- מִשְׁכָּן mishkan “tabernacle” 5
- צָפוֹן tsaphon “north” 5
- יָם yam “sea” 4
- פִּסְגָּה pisgah “Pisgah” 2
- מְרִיבָה merivah “Meribah” 2
- קָדֵשׁ qadesh “Kadesh” 2
- גְּבוּל gevul “border” 3
- שָׁזַר shazar “to twist” 2
- קֶלַע qela “curtain” 2
- תָּמָר tamar “Tamar” 2
Key verses
The verses using teman that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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…
- 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:
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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;
- 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;
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
See all 22 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.