Tell (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Talk. TELMELAH (n^? ''5 'hiU of salt' ; B e^Aee^ Babylonian town? of unkno^vn site, -hich is men tioned Nvith Tel, harsha and Cherub (t-^r ^ • Keh 7"). In 1 Es 5^ it is written T^hermeleth^ TEMA (N=-i3 'on the right,' 'south'; ea.M", e,^t ; Themal-X tribe o?Ishmael.te Arabs and a place or district in Arabia, which took their name from Tema, one of the twelve sons of Ish- S (GnV 1 Ch 1-, Is 21").

The people were leaders of caravans, or camel-men, and their en clmpments were apparently on a caravan^route which would be followed by fugitives from Dedan ( Tnh fii» Is 2V^- "). According to some authori- ties the'passage in Job refers to ' caravans crossing the desertin the dr> season ; pressmgforward to look for water S the winter torrents, and fanding none. TheTr disappointment is a lively image of the ex- ierience of Job when he looked for sympathy From hi^ brethren' (Smith, ^5-.

A™«'- f^-. J<>te to Tema) In Jer 25^ Tema is mentioned with Dedan and Buz, and it may be inferred rom 1/01T3.14 that it was E. of the former place. Ptolemy (v. six. 6) mentions a to\vn called XS e^MA"!) in the Arabian desert;, and, ac^Sc, to Schrader (KAT- 149), Tema is the Si of-Tiglath-pileser H-. mentioned in conjunc- tion with the Mas'at (the Massa of Gn 2o ). Tema is now Teimd, a well-known place in ^. Arabia! about 40 miles S.

of Du^ructd-JenM (Dumah), and on an old route from the Gulf of •Sail to the Persian Gulf. The ancient city was enclosed by a stone waU about 3_mUes in circuit, rndt°iere are still remains of this and of some great mde stone buildings. Teimd is described as 'a taKnd of palms enclosed by ong clay orchard walls fortified with high towers.'

The houses are l*w build ngs of mud or clay (Doughty, Travds ^ ^5) The Aramaic inscriptions discovered by Eutin- at Teima prove it toTiave been the seat of an un?ient civilization (see Sitzungsber. dcr Bcrl Ahld der Wissensch., 1884, P- .813ff. : and cf Studki BM. i.) The LXX re.admg, followed by EuseSufand Jerome (0»om.), apparently connects Tema with Teman. LiTi!aiT™ii.

-DUlmann co »e paasagM above cited In TEMAH (n-r : AV Tamah is due to the occur- rence of the word in pausal form ""~,1- — i''« eponym of a family of Nethinira Ezr 2" BA Qe^, Luc. eeMad) = Iseh 7" (B 'HMa9, A Qy,fio., Luc. ee/iad). TEMAN (i=-B 'on the right,' 'south'; Qm^'X Theman).

-A district, and perhaps also a town, which received its name from, or gave it to, a grandson of Esau, who was one of the dukes ^f Edom (Gn 36"•"•^^ 1 Ch 1^; =»)- Teman was one of the most important districts in Edom. From it ('the land of the Temanites,' Gn 3b-;^-») came one of the early kings of Edom ; and it is sometimes used poetically for Edom. The name is apparently used in its wider sense for Edom in Am 1" (cf Am 2*-», where the country and its chief to^vn are connected) ; in Ob»(cf. '.

the mighty men of Edom' in Jer 49, ) ; in the poetical parallel ( Ter 49=") where the inhabitants of Teman are those of Edom ; in Hab 3', ^yhere Teman stands for Edom, as Seir does in Dt 33^ ; and m Bar 3- ^. In its narrower sense the name occurs in Un rfb • , Job "" 4' 15' 22' 42», Ezk 25l^ and perhaps also in Jer 49' The Temanites were pre-eminent for their wisdom (Jer., Ob., Bar.

, as quoted above) ; and it was fitting that Eliphaz one of the wise men of Teman, should be the chief of the three friends of Job. , , The name of Teman has not been recovered, and its position is uncertain. A distoct m the N. of Edom seems to be implied in Ezk 25'' from Teman even unto Dedan,' and in Am l" it is mentioned with Bozrah {el-Buseireh) ; but on the Sher hand, it is connected mth the Red Sea i.n T„r 4920.21 Eusebius states (Onom.)

that, m ins day, Teman was a town 15 (Jerome 5) Roman miles from Petra, and a Roman post; but he does not give the direction. No trace of this place has been found, but it was probably on the road from Elath to Bozrah. LiTERATORK.-Dillmann on Gn 36" and Job 2" ;...Dnver on ii Iia- Wetotein, ZUdir.f. aUgem. Erdkwide, xviu. 52 f. • c. W. Wilson. TEMENI ('lo-B, Baer "ja-p [cf. Kittel, SBOT. 'Chronicles,' p.' 52] ; BA Ga.Mci"', Luc. eoLi^a^ei).- The ' son ' of Ashhur, 1 Ch 4«.