תֵּימָן
te.man
“south”
Definition
the south (as being on the right hand of a person facing the east)
or תֵּמָן; denominative from H3225 (יָמִין);
- south, southward, whatever is on the right (so the southern quarter), south wind 1a) south (of territory) 1b) southern quarter (of the sky) 1c) toward the south, southward (of direction) 1d) south wind
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
תֵּימָן appears 21 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
He constructed twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
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—
to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.