MADMEN.A place in Moab, which, if the MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] be correct, has not been identified. The name occurs only in Jer_48:1-47 [Gr. Jer_31:2], where there is a characteristic word-play: gam Madmçn tiddômî, also, O Madmen, thou shalt be brought to silence (LXX [Note: Septuagint.] kai pausin pausetai). It is a very natural suggestion that the initial m of Madmen has arisen by dittography from the final m of the preceding word, and that for Madmen we should read Dimon (cf. Isa_15:9), i.e. Dibon (cf. Jer_48:18). Cf. art. Medeba.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Madmen. (dunghill). A place in Moab, threatened with destruction in the pronunciations of Jeremiah. Jer_48:2.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mad?men (מדמן, madhmēn; καὶ παῦσιν παύσεται, kaı́ paúsin paúsetai): An unidentified town in Moab against which Jeremiah prophesied (Jer_48:2). The play upon the words here suggests a possible error in transcription: gam madhmēn tiddōmı̄, ?Also, Madmen, thou shalt be silenced.? The initial ?M? of ?Madmen? may have arisen by dittography from the last letter of gam. We should then vocalize it as ?Dimon,? which of course is ?Dibon.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Madmen
(Heb. Madmen', מִדְמֵן, dunghill; Sept. παῦσις v. r. Μαδαιβημά, Μαδαμημά, and Μαδενηβά; Vulg. silens), a Moabitish town, threatened with destruction by the sword from the Babylonian invasion in connection with the neighboring Heshbon (Jer_48:2). Some (as Hitzig, after the Sept.,Vulg., etc.) regard it as an appellative; and in some editions of the Auth. Vers. it is actually printed O madmen! The slight notice only affords an approximate location opposite the northern extremity of the Dead Sea. SEE MADMENAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.