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Place

Tema

aka Tema

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’.

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Key verses

Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Isaiah 21:14
They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.