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# דּוּמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1746

**Dumah** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Dumah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1746/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוּמָה²: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1746/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. m. son of Ishmael Gn 25:15 = 1 Ch 1:30, cf. prob. Dûmath al-Jandal in Northern Arabia in Jôf v. BurckhardtTravels in Syria 662 f. Di; also Ges Comm. on Is 21:11, GlaserSkizze ii. 392, 440. city in mountains of Judah Jos 15:52, comp. Δοῦμα in the Daroma, 17 miles from Eleutheropolis LagOnom. 250, 2nd ed. 258, = mod. Daume, SW. from Hebron vandeVeldeMemoir 308 Guérin Judée iii. 359 ff. cf. Di. name of Edom with mystic meaning Is 21:11 Duma = silence of death, desolation, De Che al. (JDMich Ges Hi think 3 = 1; 𝔊 has Ἰδουμαια; Jerinterpr. as part of Idumea; still another view sub i. דּוּמָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Dumah (2); of Dumah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.14/#tree)

וּמִשְׁמָ֥ע וְדוּמָ֖ה וּמַשָּֽׂא׃

*Word for word:* and Mishma and Dumah and Massa

*JPS 1917:* and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa;

[1 Chronicles 1:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.30/#tree)

מִשְׁמָ֣ע וְדוּמָ֔ה מַשָּׂ֖א חֲדַ֥ד וְתֵימָֽא׃

*Word for word:* Mishma and Dumah Massa Hadad and Tema

*JPS 1917:* Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1746.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1746/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).