Dumah (Arabian living at the time of the Patriarchs)

Dumah was a son of Ishmael and, by extension, the Arabian tribe and region descended from him (Genesis 25:14; 1 Chronicles 1:30). The name is generally connected to the oasis of Dumat al-Jandal in northern Arabia, an important caravan stop. Isaiah's brief oracle against Dumah (Isaiah 21:11-12) uses the name, meaning silence, as a play on words, and most read it as directed at Edom or its Arabian neighbors rather than the Ishmaelite region itself.