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Tema South; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called (Gen 25:15; Ch1 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. Teman Id. (1.) A grandson of Esau, one of the "dukes of Edom" (Gen 36:11, Gen 36:15, Gen 36:42).

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