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Tema is a town in the Bible, about 556 km (346 miles) south-east of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 3 verses, from Job 6:19 to Jeremiah 25:23.
South; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called (Gen. 25:15; 1 Chr. 1:30; Job 6:19; Isa. 21:14; Jer. 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’.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Tema is a town about 556 km (346 miles) south-east of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.
The King James Version names Tema in 3 verses, in 3 books, from Job 6:19 to Jeremiah 25:23.