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•TEMA south; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called (Genesis 25:15; 1 Chronicles 1:30; Job 6:19; Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 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’.
•TEMAN id. (1.) A grandson of Esau, one of the “dukes of Edom” (Genesis 36:11, 15, 42).
(2.) A place in Southern Idumea, the land of “the sons of the east,” frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It was noted for the wisdom of its inhabitants (Amos 1:12; Obad. 1:8; Jeremiah 49:7; Ezekiel 25:13). It was divided from the hills of Paran by the low plain of Arabah (Habakkuk 3:3).
•TEMANITE a man of Teman, the designation of Eliphaz, one of Job’s three friends (Job 2:11; 22:1).
•TEMENI one of the sons of Ashur, the father of Tekoa (1 Chronicles 4:6).
•TEMPLE first used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Samuel 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “the temple of God” (1 Corinthians 3:16, 17). The Church is designated “an holy temple in the Lord” (Ephesians 2:21). Heaven is also called a temple (Revelation 7:5). We read also of the heathen “temple of the great goddess Diana” (Acts 19:27).
This word is generally used in Scripture of the sacred house erected on the summit of Mount Moriah for the worship of God. It is called “the temple” (1 Kings 6:17); “the temple [R.V., ‘house’] of the Lord” (2 Kings 11:10); “thy holy temple” (Psalm 79:1); “the house of the Lord” (2 Chronicles 23:5, 12); “the house of the God of Jacob” (Isaiah 2:3); “the house of my glory” (60:7); an “house of prayer” (56:7; Matthew 21:13); “an house of sacrifice” (2 Chronicles 7:12); “the house of their sanctuary” (2 Chronicles