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Strong's #1746 - דּוּמָה
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Dumah = “silence”
1) son of Ishmael and most probably the founder of the Ishmaelite tribe of Arabia (noun proper masculine)
2) a town in the mountainous district of Judah, near Hebron (noun proper locative)
3) a mystical name of Edom indicating death and ruin (noun proper locative)
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דּוּמָה fem.
(1) silence, place of silence, poet. used of Hades, Psalms 94:17, 115:17.
(2) [Dumah], pr.n. of an Ishmaelite tribe and a region in Arabia, Genesis 25:14; Isaiah 21:11 no doubt the same as is now called دومة الجندل stony Dumah, and دومة السا مية Syrian Dumah; situated in Arabia on the borders of the Syrian Desert; a place fortified with a citadel; in D’Anville’s map placed 58° longit., 29°, 30´ latitude; Λουμαίθα of Ptolemy. See Abulfeda’s Arabia, edit. Gagnier, page 50, and Jakut as there cited; Michaëlis’ Supplem. page 419; Niebuhr’s Arabia, page 344; my Comment. on Isaiah, loc. cit.