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title: תֵּימָנִי — Temani · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֵּימָנִי (8489), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Temani. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֵּימָנִי

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«תֵּימָנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Temani** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 8489 · **BDB:** תֵּימָנִי

### Glosses

Temanite (6); the.Temanite\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Temani [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8489/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8489/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. always c. art. אֱלִיפַז הַתֵּימָנִי (v. supr.) Jb 2:11; 4:1; 15:1; 42:7, 9 = אֱל׳ הַתֵּמָנִי 22:1; = n.pr.coll. אֶרֶין הַתּ׳ Gn 36:34 the land of the Temanites = 1 Ch 1:45.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֵּימָנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8489/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 4:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.1/)

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וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

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[Job 15:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.1/)

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וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

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