Dumah
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?...
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Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,...
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And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,...
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1. Son of Ishmael
Ge 25:14; 1Ch 1:30; Isa 21:11,12
-2. A city of Canaan assigned to Judah
Jos 15:52...
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(silence).
1. A son of Ishmael, most probably the founder of the
Ishmaelite tribe of Arabia, and thence the name of the
principal place of district inhabited by that tribe. Ge 25:14;
1Ch 1:30; Isa 21:11
2. A city in the mountainous district of Judah, near
Hebron, Jos 15:52 represented by the ruins of a village called
ed-Daumeh, six miles sou...
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silence, (comp. Ps. 94:17), the fourth son of Ishmael; also
the
tribe descended from him; and hence also the region in
Arabia
which they inhabited (Gen. 25:14; 1 Chr. 1:30).
There was also a town of this name in Judah (Josh.
15:52),
which has been identified with ed-Domeh, about 10
miles
southwest of Hebron. The place mentioned in the
"bu...
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("silence".) An Ishmaelite tribe and region (Genesis 25:14; 1
Chronicles 1:30; Isaiah 21:11). The name survives in Doomat el
Jendel, "Dumah of the blocks of stone," namely, of which it
was built. On the borders of Arabia and the Syrian desert. Put
for all Idumea, to imply it should soon be put to silence,
i.e. be destroyed. The name indicates ...
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du'-ma (dumah, "silence"): This word occurs in the Old
Testament with the following significations: (1) the land of
silence or death, the grave (Ps 94:17; 115:17); (2) a town in
the highlands of Judah between Hebron and Beersheba, now ed-
Daume (Josh 15:52); (3) an emblematical designation of Edom in
the obscure oracle (Isa 21:11,12); (4) an Is...
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