Lexicon
תֵּימָנִי
te.ma.ni
H8489
N:N--PG Hebrew

Temanite

8
Occurrences
3
Books
Hebrew
Language

te.ma.ni identifies Husham’s land and repeatedly identifies Eliphaz in the Job passages.

The term most often identifies Eliphaz in the Job passages, including his speeches, his visit to Job, and the later address and action involving him. In the two parallel king-list verses, it identifies the land from which Husham came.

Senses in use

  1. Identifier attached to Eliphaz · dominant

    In Job 4:1, Job 15:1, and Job 22:1, the masculine singular gentilic occurs with Eliphaz as he answers. In Job 2:11 the APB renders the list of Job’s visitors as including “Eliphaz the Temanite,” and Job 42:7 and Job 42:9 retain that identification in the LORD’s address to Eliphaz and in his subsequent action.

  2. Land designation for Husham · occasional

    In 1 Chronicles 1:45 and Genesis 36:34, the masculine singular gentilic occurs in the clause identifying Husham’s origin; the APB renders him as coming “from the land of the Temanite” before stating that he reigned in Jobab’s place.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the Job verses, the APB consistently presents the designation as “the Temanite” with Eliphaz. In 1 Chronicles 1:45 and Genesis 36:34, it instead renders the clause “from the land of the Temanite”; these renderings reflect whole clauses rather than a word-for-word alignment.

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Across Scripture