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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8486

תֵּימָן

temantay-mawn'

south

23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: têymân

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8486is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8486

the south (as being on the right hand of a person facing the east)

The King James renders it: south (side, -ward, wind).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

teman is rendered "south". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 26:18Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:18תֵימָֽנָה׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • south -ward12
  • south3
  • a south wind1
  • and from south1
  • and south -ward1
  • and to south1
  • from south1
  • O south wind1
  • the south1
  • to south1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

תֵּימָנִיTemaniTemaniteUses8

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 23, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • תֵּימָ֑נָה3
  • תֵימָֽן׃2
  • תֵּימָ֖נָה2
  • תֵּימָ֔נָה2
  • תֵּימָֽנָה׃2
  • הַתֵּימָֽן׃1
  • וּלְתֵימָ֖ן1
  • וּמִ֨תֵּימָ֔ן1
  • וְתֵימָ֥נָה1
  • לְתֵימָֽן׃1
  • מִתֵּימָ֞ן1
  • תֵימָ֔ן1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)12HNcfsa/Sd
  • noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular2HC/R/Ncfsa
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)1HC/Ncfsa/Sd
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa

Exodus

five uses
  • Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

    Exodus 26:18

    • תֵימָֽנָה׃teimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • 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 26:35

    • תֵּימָ֑נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • 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 27:9

    • תֵּ֠ימָנָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • He constructed twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

    Exodus 36:23

    • תֵּימָֽנָה׃teimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,

    Exodus 38:9

    • תֵּימָ֗נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward

Numbers

three uses
  • On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard:

    Numbers 2:10

    • תֵּימָ֖נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

    Numbers 3:29

    • תֵּימָֽנָה׃teimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • 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.

    Numbers 10:6

    • תֵּימָ֑נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward

Deuteronomy

one use
  • 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.

    Deuteronomy 3:27

    • וְתֵימָ֥נָהveteimanahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and south -ward

Joshua

three uses
  • 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 12:3

    • וּמִ֨תֵּימָ֔ןumiteimanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and from south
  • 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 13:4

    • מִתֵּימָ֞ןmiteimanpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from south
  • 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:

    Joshua 15:1

    • תֵימָֽן׃teimannoun · feminine singulartagged: south

Job

two uses
  • He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

    Job 9:9

    • תֵמָֽן׃temannoun · feminine singulartagged: south
  • Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

    Job 39:26

    • לְתֵימָֽן׃leteimanpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to south

Psalms

one use
  • He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

    Psalms 78:26

    • תֵימָֽן׃teimannoun · feminine singulartagged: a south wind

Song of Solomon

one use
  • 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.

    Song of Solomon 4:16

    • תֵימָ֔ןteimannoun · feminine singulartagged: O south wind

Isaiah

one use
  • 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—

    Isaiah 43:6

    • וּלְתֵימָ֖ןuleteimanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and to south

Ezekiel

four uses
  • “Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.

    Ezekiel 20:46

    • תֵּימָ֔נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • 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 47:19

    • תֵּימָ֔נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
    • תֵּימָ֖נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward
  • 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.

    Ezekiel 48:28

    • תֵּימָ֑נָהteimanahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: south -ward

Zechariah

two uses
  • 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 6:6

    • הַתֵּימָֽן׃hateimanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: 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.

    Zechariah 9:14

    • תֵּימָֽן׃teimannoun · feminine singulartagged: south

The letters

Gematria 500· 1,150 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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