Where is dumah

The town itself, which is one of the "Kureieyt" of Wady el ura see the Marasid , s. Dumah , appears to be called Duma, and. A town in the mountain district of Judah Jos , in the group west by south of Hebron Keil, Comment. Eusebius and Jerome Onomnast. Robinson passed the ruins of a village called ed Daumeh, 6 miles south-west of Hebron Res.

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Don't trust your Bible study to a mere web search. Genesis ; 1 Chronicles ; Isaiah A city in the mountainous district of Judah, near Hebron, Joshua represented by the ruins of a village called ed-Daumeh , six miles southwest of Hebron. This is doubtless the same which is still called by the Arabs "Duma the stony" and "the Syrian Duma," situated on the confines of the Arabian and Syrian desert, with a fortress. There was also a town of this name in Judah Joshua , which has been identified with ed-Domeh, about 10 miles southwest of Hebron.

The place mentioned in the "burden" of the prophet Isaiah is Edom or Idumea. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia DUMAH du'-ma dumah, "silence" : This word occurs in the Old Testament with the following significations: 1 the land of silence or death, the grave Psalm ; Psalm ; 2 a town in the highlands of Judah between Hebron and Beersheba, now ed-Daume Joshua ; 3 an emblematical designation of Edom in the obscure oracle Isaiah , 12 ; 4 an Ishmaelite tribe in Arabia Genesis 1 Chronicles According to the Arabic geographies this son of Ishmael rounded the town of Dumat-el-Jandal, the stone-built Dumah, so called to distinguish it from another Dumah near the Euphrates.

The former now bears the name of the Jauf "belly" , being a depression situated half-way between the head of the Persian Gulf and the head of the gulf of Akaba. Its people in the time of Mohammed were Christians of the tribe of Kelb. It contained a great well from which the palms and crops were irrigated. It has often been visited by European travelers in recent times.

See Jour. Royal Geog. Palgrave, Central and Eastern Arabia, chapter ii. It is possible that the oracle in Isaiah number 3 above concerns this place. Thomas Hunter Weir Strong's Hebrew Dumah -- a son of Ishmael, also a city in Judah and a name Transliteration: dumah Phonetic Spelling: doo-maw' Short Definition: silence.