Tema (son of Ishmael)

Tema was, according to the Bible,[1][2] the ninth son of Ishmael[3][4]

The name Tema or Te'ma or Tema' (תֵּימָא or תֵּמָא] means the South. The name is rendered Greek: Θαιμάν and Thema in Latin,[5]

The name also applied to the name of the tribe that were descended from him and the district they lived in.[6]

References

1. Genesis 25:15
2. 1 Chronicles 1:30
3. Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1979), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (2nd, revised ed.), Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, ISBN 9780802837813
4. Rosenmüller, Ernst Friedrich Carl; Morren, Nathaniel (1841), The Biblical Geography of Asia Minor, Phoenicia, and Arabia, (Thomas Clark, 1841)
5. Pliny, Hist. Nat. 6:32
6. Job 6:19