תֵּימָןtêymân

south, south wind, chiefly poetic

Pronunciation: tay-mawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8486

Meanings

1.

a. south, southern quarter, of sky (Job 39:26; Job 9:9; Zechariah 9:14)

b. with ה locative toward the south, especially in topographic description (often with other points of compass) (Exodus 26:18; Ezekiel 47:19; Exodus 27:9)

2. south wind (Psalms 78:26; Song of Solomon 4:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 23 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 26:18 Make twenty of these frames to support the curtains on the south side of the Tabernacle.
  • Exodus 26:35 Place the table outside the inner curtain on the north side of the Tabernacle, and place the lampstand across the room on the south side.
  • Exodus 27:9 “Then make the courtyard for the Tabernacle, enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side, make the curtains 150 feet long.
  • Exodus 36:23 He made twenty of these frames to support the curtains on the south side of the Tabernacle.
  • Exodus 38:9 Then Bezalel made the courtyard, which was enclosed with curtains made of finely woven linen. On the south side the curtains were 150 feet long.
  • Numbers 2:10 So the total of all the troops on Reuben’s side of the camp is 151,450. These three tribes will be second in line whenever the Israelites travel.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).