Bible Names

Tema: meaning of the name

Tema means “admiration; perfection; consummation.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tema in Hebrew and Greek

תֵּימָא H8485

Têymâʼ (tay-maw') — Tema, a son of Ishmael, and the region settled by him

or תֵּמָא; probably of foreign derivation;

Who named Tema in the Bible

Places named Tema

Tema in Scripture

“Tema” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 25:15

    Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

  • 1 Chronicles 1:30

    Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

  • Job 6:19

    The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

  • Isaiah 21:14

    The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

  • Jeremiah 25:23

    Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,