The Definition of the word Dumah

Dumah

Silence, (comp. Ps. 94:17), the fourth son of Ishmael; also the tribe descended from him; and hence also the region in Arabia which they inhabited (Gen. 25:14; 1 Chr. 1:30). "There was also a town of this name in Judah (Josh. 15:52), which "has been identified with ed-Domeh, about 10 miles southwest of" "Hebron. The place mentioned in the "burden" of the prophet" Isaiah (21:11) is Edom or Idumea.