---
title: דּוּמָה — Dumah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוּמָה (1746), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Dumah. BDB 1906: n.pr. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1746.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ד](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1491.md)‎ / דּוּמָה‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# דּוּמָה

<!-- .meta -->
«דּוּמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Dumah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1746 · **BDB:** דּוּמָה²

### Glosses

Dumah (2); of.Dumah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

<!-- fold -->
**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).

<!-- .note -->
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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוּמָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1746/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Genesis 25:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.14/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וּמִשְׁמָ֥ע וְדוּמָ֖ה וּמַשָּֽׂא׃

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

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[1 Chronicles 1:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.30/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
מִשְׁמָ֣ע וְדוּמָ֔ה מַשָּׂ֖א חֲדַ֥ד וְתֵימָֽא׃

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

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [דּוּמָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1745.md)
- next →: [דּוּמִיָּה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1747.md)
- ↑ back to [ד](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1491.md)