HebrewH1746Proper Noun (Masculine)
דּוּמָה
du.mah
“Dumah”
3Occurrences
H1746Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Dumah, a tribe and region of Arabia
the same as H1745 (דּוּמָה);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the Arabs living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; 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
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Proper Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
N:N-M-P
Full Description
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
דּוּמָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
1 Chronicles
1
Genesis
1
Isaiah
1
Key Passages
1 Chronicles 1:30BSB
Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
Genesis 25:14BSB
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Isaiah 21:11BSB
This is the burden against Dumah:One calls to me from Seir,“Watchman, what is left of the night?Watchman, what is left of the night?”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.