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’.
Place
Tema
- Name means
- admiration; perfection; consummation
- Location
- 27.633°N, 38.554°E
- Mentioned
- 3 verses
About Tema
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Every mention
Places: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0), with locations from OpenBible.info. Many ancient sites are uncertain.