Quick Definition
Dumah
Biblical Persons & Places
Strong's Definition
Dumah, a tribe and region of Arabia
Derivation: the same as H1745 (דּוּמָה);
KJV Usage: Dumah.
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
דּוּמָה (du.mah) — Dumah. A man of the Arabs living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.14; son of: Ishmael (H3458); brother of: Nebaioth (H5032), Kedar (H6938), Adbeel (H0110), Mibsam (H4017), Mishma (H4927), Massa (H4854), Hadad (H2301), Tema (H8485), Jetur (H3195), Naphish (H5305), Kedemah (H6929) and Mahalath (H4258) § Dumah = "silence" 1) son of Ishmael and most probably the founder of the Ishmaelite tribe of Arabia 2) a town in the mountainous district of Judah, near Hebron 3) a mystical name of Edom indicating death and ruin
דּוּמָה (du.mah) — Dumah.
§ Dumah = "silence" a mystical name of Edom indicating death and ruin
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f · דּוּמִיָּה · דּוּמָם
Regions Under the Earth
land of silence = location characterized by the absence of any sound or noise; ≈ a metaphor for the realm of death
name
Names of Locations
Dumah = location ◄ in north-central Arabia, ► inhabited by an ethnic group that were regarded as descendants of Dumah, the son of Ishmael, the son of Abraham
1 ISA 21:11 MT RSV NIV NJPS NJB NRSV REB CEV | LXX "Iδουμαíα" GNT "Edom"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
דּוּמָה n.pr. m. son of Ishmael
city in mountains of Judah
name of Edom with mystic mng.
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