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Dinhabah

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Dinhabah was an Edomite city mentioned in Genesis 36, the capital of King Bela ben Beor. The Hebrew name דִּנְהָבָה may mean "robbers' den".^[1]^[2] Dinhabah may have been located on the site of modern Dibdiba, a little northeast of Petra.^[3]^[4]

The name is not uncommon among the Shemitic races. Ptolemy^[5] mentions a Danaba (Δανάβα) near Palmyra Syria which was latter a bishop's see, and according to Zosimus^[6] there was a Danabe (Δανάβη) in Babylonia.

References

1. ^דִּנְהָבָה at bible lexicon.
2. ^The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia.
3. ^Smith's list in Robinson's Researches, 3, App. page 114.
4. ^Henry George Tomkins "Dinhabah." Palestine Exploration Quarterly Volume 23, Issue 4 (1 October 1891), pp. 322-323.
5. ^Ptolemy 5:15, 24.
6. ^Zosimus (3:27)

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