Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Dumah is one of the sons of Ishmael and the ancestral head of a tribe. He belongs to the Ishmaelite branch of Abraham's wider family and to the Bible's larger map of desert peoples. First appears in Gen 25:14.1
AI summary: Dumah matters because the cross references place him among the sons of Ishmael whose names become tribal markers. His inclusion widens the biblical picture of Abraham's descendants beyond Israel while preserving their historical relatedness. Taken together, the material presents Dumah as an Ishmaelite forefather whose line contributes to the wider Semitic world around Israel.1
Central Figure
Dumah
Siblings
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.