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temanite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
te-man-ite
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An archaic word for a Yemenite Jew in the Book of Job (2:11) from the Jewish Bible.

noun

An inhabitant of Teman.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From the Wikipedia article for Teman (Edom): Teman (Hebrew: תימן), was the name of an Edomite clan and of its eponym, according to the Bible, and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea. The term is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym of the direction South and was applied to being used as the Hebrew name of Yemen (whose Arabic name is "Yaman") due to its location in the Southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, thus making Yemenite Jews being called "Temanim" in Hebrew.

Inflected Forms

temanites (plural)

Questions

What does temanite mean?
An archaic word for a Yemenite Jew in the Book of Job (2:11) from the Jewish Bible.
Where does temanite come from?
From the Wikipedia article for Teman (Edom): Teman (Hebrew: תימן), was the name of an Edomite clan and of its eponym, according to the Bible, and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea. The term is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym of the direction South and was applied to being used as the Hebrew name of Yemen (whose Arabic name is "Yaman") due to its location in the Southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, thus making Yemenite Jews being called "Temanim" in Hebrew.

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