Dinhabah

Map of Edom.

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 (01 October 1891), pp. 322-323.
  5. ↑ Ptolemy 5:15, 24.
  6. ↑ Zosimus (3:27)


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