Dumah
du.mah is used as a proper name in genealogical lists, a territorial list, and an oracle heading.
The attested forms function as a proper name: in lists of names and places and in the heading of an oracle. The supplied verses do not establish whether every occurrence identifies the same referent.
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Proper name in lists and oracle heading · dominant
All four occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In Genesis 25:14 and 1 Chronicles 1:30 the APB renders “Dumah” among listed names; in Joshua 15:52 it renders “Dumah” between Arab and Eshan, while Isaiah 21:11 opens, “An oracle of Dumah.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “Dumah” in the two name lists and the territorial list, and as “Dumah” in “An oracle of Dumah” in Isaiah 21:11. It does not by itself determine the referent of the proper name.