Person Old Testament
Telem
Telem was a temple servant who married a foreign wife during the Exile and later divorced her. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:24.
Why it matters. Temple servant who married a foreign wife
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Telem
Telem is mentioned in Ezr.10.24 as one of the temple servants who had married foreign wives during the Babylonian exile. Under Ezra's leadership, the returned exiles agreed to divorce their foreign wives to maintain the purity of the Jewish community. Telem is listed among those who complied with this decision.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)