- TEL-HARESHA hill of the wood, a place in Babylon from which some
captive Jews returned to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:59; Nehemiah 7:61). - TEL-MELAH hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews
returned (id.). - 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