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temanite

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An archaic word for a Yemenite Jew in the Book of Job (2:11) from the Jewish Bible.

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Examples

  • Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.

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noun

Meaning 2

An inhabitant of Teman.

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History

Etymology

From the Wikipedia article for Teman (Edom): Teman (Hebrew: תימן), was the name of an Edomite clan and of its eponym, according to the Bible, and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea. The term is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym of the direction South and was applied to being used as the Hebrew name of Yemen (whose Arabic name is "Yaman") due to its location in the Southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, thus making Yemenite Jews being called "Temanim" in Hebrew.