teman · south

What it means

teman (תֵּימָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “south”.

Also the south wind.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The direction toward midday, the side opposite the north.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• south ×20
• side ×2
• southward ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×3
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Zechariah×2

• Exodus 26:18

  You shall make the boards for the dwelling: twenty boards for the southern side, toward the south.

• Exodus 26:35

  You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling; and the table you shall put on the north side.

• Exodus 27:9

  You shall make the courtyard of the dwelling. For the southern side, toward the south, the courtyard shall have hangings of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for the one side,

• Exodus 36:23

  And he made the boards for the dwelling: twenty boards for the south side,

• Exodus 38:9

  And he made the courtyard: for the south side, the hangings of the courtyard were of twisted fine linen, a hundred cubits,

• Numbers 2:10

  The banner of the camp of Reuben shall be on the south side by their armies; and the chief of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur,

• Numbers 3:29

  The families of the sons of Kohath shall camp on the side of the dwelling, on the south.

• Numbers 10:6

  And when you blow an acclamation the second time, the camps that camp on the south side shall set out; an acclamation they shall blow for their settings out.

• Deuteronomy 3:27

  Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, northward, southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes, for you shall not cross this Jordan.

• Joshua 12:3

  and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth to the east, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, below the slopes of Pisgah;

• Joshua 13:4

  in the south; all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite;

• Joshua 15:1

  And the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin to the south, at the farthest south.

• Job 9:9

  who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

• Job 39:26

  Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, and spreads its wings toward the south?

• Psalms 78:26

  He sent forth the east wind in the heavens, and drove by his strength the south wind,

• Song of Songs 4:16

  Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, let its balsams flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his choice fruits.

• Isaiah 43:6

  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 end of the earth,

• Ezekiel 20:46

  “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and let your word drip toward the southland, and prophesy against the forest of the field of the Negev.

• Ezekiel 47:19

  And the south side toward the south: from Tamar to the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, to the Wadi, to the great sea. And this is the south side toward the south.

• Ezekiel 48:28

  And beside the border of Gad, on the side of the south toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, to the Wadi, to the great sea.

• Zechariah 6:6

  The one in which are the black horses: they are going out to the land of the north, and the white have gone out after them, and the dappled have gone out to the land of the south.”

• Zechariah 9:14

  And YHWH will appear over them, and his arrow will go out like the lightning; and Adonai YHWH will blow the horn, and will go in the whirlwinds of the south.

And 1 more times.