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title: תֵּימָן — south · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֵּימָן (8486), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 23 times: south. BDB 1906: n.f. south, south wind. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֵּימָן

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«תֵּימָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **south** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 23 times · **Key:** 8486 · **BDB:** תֵּימָן

### Glosses

southward (12); south (4); of.\[the\].south (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

south [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8486/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. south, south wind [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8486/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Is 43:6 south, south wind, chiefly poet., P \& Ez (lit. what is on the right (hand), i.e. as one faces east; v. WetzstVerhandl. d. Berl. Anthrop. Ges. 1878, 390)—abs. ת׳ Zc 9:14 + 6 times (הַתּ׳ only Zc 6:6); תֵּמָן Jb 9:9; c. ה loc. תֵּימָ֫נָה Ex 26:18 + 12 times;— south, southern quarter of sky, לְתֵימָן Jb 39:26 (of flight of bird); of constellations חַדְרֵי ת׳ 9:9; סַעֲרוֹת ת׳ Zc 9:14 whirlwinds of the south; of territory, the south Is 43:6 (opp. צָפוֹן), also אֶרֶץ הַתּ׳ Zc 6:6 (opp. אֶרֶץ צָפוֹן); נֶגְבָּה מִקְצֵה ת׳ Jos 15:1 southward at the end of the south, i.e. in the remotest south (of the land);—see also ii. ת׳. c. ה loc. toward the south, especially in topograph. description (often with other points of compass), פְּאַת נֶ֫גְבָּה תֵּימָ֫נָה Ex 26:18 (P), פ׳ת׳נ׳ Ez 47:19, פ׳ נֶגֶב ת׳ Ex 27:9; 36:23; 38:9 (all P), Ez 47:19; 48:28; + צלע side Ex 26:35, ירך Nu 3:29 (both P); also Nu 2:10; 10:6 (P); יָ֫מָּה וְצָפֹ֫נָה וְת׳ וּמִזְרָחָה Dt 3:27; ה loc. is redundant in דֶּרֶךְ תֵּימָ֫נָה Ez 21:2 turn thy face southward (‖ דָּרוֹם and נֶגֶב). south wind ψ 78:26 (קָדִים in ‖ cl.), Ct 4:16 (צָפוֹן in ‖ cl.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֵּימָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8486/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 9:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/)

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עֹֽשֶׂה־עָ֭שׁ כְּסִ֥יל וְכִימָ֗ה וְחַדְרֵ֥י תֵמָֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].makes \[the\].Bear Orion and Pleiades and.\[the\] chambers of.\[the\].south

*JPS 1917:* Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

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[Numbers 3:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.29/)

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מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת בְּנֵי־קְהָ֖ת יַחֲנ֑וּ עַ֛ל יֶ֥רֶךְ הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן תֵּימָֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* the.clans of.the.descendants of.Kohath they.will.encamp at the.side of the.tabernacle southward

*JPS 1917:* The families of the sons of Kohath were to pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward;

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