South; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called ([Gen. 25:15](/gen#Gen.25.15); [1 Chr. 1:30](/1chr#1Chr.1.30); [Job 6:19](/job#Job.6.19); [Isa. 21:14](/isa#Isa.21.14); [Jer. 25:23](/jer#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’.