Dumah דּוּמָה

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Dumah
דּוּמָה
Transliterationdumah
Strong's numberH1746 (H1746G, H1746H)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossDumah
Occurrences3 in 3 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (1)

Dumah (Hebrew דּוּמָה, Strong's H1746) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Dumah”. It occurs 3 times.

Definition

H1746G: 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

H1746H: Dumah

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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVdumah (4)
BSBdumah (1), against dumah (1)

Verses

Every verse with Dumah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Chronicles

Isaiah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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