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Dumah

דּוּמָהStrong’s H1746

dumah (du-mah)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Dumah is the Hebrew word usually translated “dumah”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,”
Genesis 25:14 KJV
Meaning
  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
  4. § Dumah = "silence"
How it's translated
  • and dumah 2
  • dumah 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1
  • Isaiah 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

דּוּמָה dumah · 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 dumah · Dumah

§ Dumah = "silence" a mystical name of Edom indicating death and ruin

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.