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Dumah

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Dumah, 1

Du´mah, a tribe and country of the Ishmaelites in Arabia (; ). It is doubtless the same that is still called by the Arabs Duma the Stony, and the Syrian Duma, situated on the confines of the Arabian and Syrian deserts, with a fortress.

Dumah, 2

Dumah was also the name of a town in the tribe of Judah (), which Eusebius and Jerome place seventeen R. miles from Eleutheropolis, in Daroma.

 

 

 

 

Bibliography Information
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Dumah'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​d/dumah.html.
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