Tema

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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'.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Tema, admiration; perfection; consummation