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Eliphaz (Hebrew: אֱלִיפָז ’Ělīp̄āz, "El is pure gold") is called a Temanite . He is one of the friends or comforters of Job in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible . The first of the three visitors to Job ( Job 2:11 ), he was said to have come from Teman, an important city of Edom ( Amos 1:12 ; Obadiah 9 .
According to bibleatlas.org and author W. Ewing, Teman or te'-man (תימן) means "on the right," i.e. "south" (Thaiman) and it is the name of a district and town in the land of Edom, named after Teman the grandson of Esau, the son of his firstborn, Eliphaz. [2] A chief of Teman is named among the chiefs of clans of Edom. [3]
Eliphaz [5] אֱלִיפָ֑ז By Adah [6] עָדָ֗ה daughter of Elon אֵילֹון֙ the Hittite. (possibly the same Eliphaz the Temanite in the Book of Job) Married before Jacob's flight to Haran Teman תֵּימָ֣ן; Omar אֹומָ֔ר; Zepho צְפֹ֥ו; Gatam גַעְתָּ֖ם; Kenaz קְנַֽז
Eliphaz (Hebrew: אֱלִיפַז/ ... He had six sons, [3] of whom Omar was the firstborn, and the others were Teman, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz and finally Amalek, ...
Job 4:12-5:7: Eliphaz tries to warn Job about complaining against God because only the ungodly resent the dealings of God and by their impatience bring down his wrath upon them. Job 5:8-27: Eliphaz appeals to Job to follow a different course, to seek after God, for God only smites to heal or to correct, to draw people to himself and away from evil.
The first part of this section contains Eliphaz's rebuke to Job for the choices Job made and the emptiness of the words of Job, who thinks of himself as a wise man (verses 1–6). [11] Eliphaz concerns that Job undermines the proper attitude of respecting God (Eliphaz is the only one of Job's three friends who refers to the "fear of God"). [12]
In his last speech of the book (chapter 22), Eliphaz becomes more direct in his accusation of Job as a sinner, even further than the position of Bildad and Zophar, by confronting Job with a list of alleged offenses (verses 1–11) in contrast to God's knowledge and power (verses 12–20), so at the end Eliphaz urges Job to repent (verses 21–30).
Teman or Teiman may refer to: Teman or Teiman, the Hebrew for Yemen, homeland of the Temani or Teimani, the Yemenite Jews. In the Tanakh, Job's friend Eliphaz was a Temani; In the Book of Genesis, Teman is a son of Eliphaz, Esau's eldest son; Teman (Edom), an Edomite clan and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea