Tema

Tema was one of the twelve sons of Ishmael, Abraham's son by Hagar, listed in the genealogy of Genesis 25:15 and 1 Chronicles 1:30. His name corresponds to the ancient oasis city of Tema in northwestern Arabia, which appears in Assyrian inscriptions and in the prophetic writings of Isaiah (21:14) and Jeremiah (25:23) as an important caravan center. Tema thus represents both a person and the eponymous ancestor of an Ishmaelite tribal group associated with that region.