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• דוּמָּה , דוּמָּה

Du'mah. (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. Genesis 25:14; 1 Chronicles 1:30; Isaiah 21:11.

2. A city in the mountainous district of Judah, near Hebron, Joshua 15:52, represented by the ruins of a village called ed-Daumeh, six miles southwest of Hebron.