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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
LEUMMIM.A tribe of the Dedanites (Gen_25:3). Cf. Letushim.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Gen_25:3. A tribe, ("the peoples").
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Leum'mim. (peoples). The name of the third, of the descendants of Dedan, son of Jokshan, Gen_25:3, being in the plural form, like his brethren, Asshurim and Letushim.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
lḗ-um?im (לאמּים, le'ummı̄m): A Dedanite tribe of North Arabia, connected with the LETUSHIM (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Leummim
(Heb. Leiimmimn', לְאֻמַּים, peoples, as often; Sept. Λαωμείμ), the last named of the three sons of Dedan (grandson of Abraham by Keturah), and head of an Arabian tribe descended from him (Gen_25:3; and Vulgate at 1Ch_1:32). B.C. considerably post 2024. SEE ARABIA.
They are supposed to be the same with the Allumoeotoe (Α᾿λλουμαιῶται), named by Ptolemy (6:7, 24) as near the Gerrhaei, which appears to be a corruption of the Hebrew word with the art. prefixed. He also enumerates Luma among the towns of Arabia Deserta (5:19), and Forster (Geogr. of Arabia, 1:335) suggests that this may liave been an ancient settlement of the same tribe (Kitto). They are identified by Fresnel (in the Journ. Asiat. iiie serie, 6:217) with an Arab tribe called Umeiyim, one of the very ancient tribes of Arabia of which no genealogy is given by the Arabs, and who appear to have been ante-Abrahamic, and possibly aboriginal inhabitants of the country. SEE LETUSHIM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.