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 be put somewhere in the desert E of Palestine or Edom. The Nabatæans of a later age (see Schürer, GJV$3. 4$, i. 728 ff.) were naturally identified with by Jos. (Ant. i. 220 f.), Jer. (Qu.), T$J$ [], as they still are by Schr., Schürer, and some others. But since the native name of the Nabatæans was, the identification is doubtful, and is now mostly abandoned. The two tribes are mentioned together in Is. 60$7$: alone only Gn. 28$9$ 36$3$; but is alluded to from the time of Jeremiah downwards as a typical nomadic tribe of the Eastern desert. In late Heb. the name was extended to the Arabs as a whole (so T$J$ ).— (: see on v.$3$)] Perhaps an Arab tribe Idibi'il which Tiglath-pileser (KIB, ii. 21) appointed to watch the Egyptian frontier (not necessarily the border of Egypt proper).—] a Simeonite clan (1 Ch. 4$25$), otherwise not known.—14. follows  in 1 Ch. 4$25$. Di. compares a Ǧebel Misma' SE of Kāf, and another near Ḥāyil E of Teima.—] Several places bearing this name are known (Di.); but the one that best suits this passage is the Dūmah which Arabic writers place 4 days' journey N of Teima: viz. Dūmat el-Ǧendel, now called el-Ǧōf, a great oasis in the S of the Syrian desert and on the border of the Nefūd (Doughty, Ar. Des. ii. 607; cf. Burckhardt, Trav. in Syr. 602). It is probably the of Ptol. v. 18 (19). 7, the Domata of Plin. vi. 157.—] See on 10$30$, and cf. Pr. 31$1$. A tribe Mas'a is named by Tiglath-pileser along with Teima (v.$15$), Saba', Hayapa ($4$), Idibi'il ($13$), and may be identical with the of Ptol. v. 18 (19). 2, NE of .—15. ] unknown.— (Is. 21$14$, Jer. 25$23$, Jb. 6$19$) is the modern Teima, on the W border of the Neǧd, c. 250 miles SE of Aḳāba, still an important caravan station on the route from Yemen to Syria, and (as local inscrs. show) in ancient times the seat of a highly developed civilisation: see the descriptions in Doughty, ''Ar. Des.'' i. 285 ff., 549 ff.— and are named together in 1 Ch. 5$19$ among the East-Jordanic tribes defeated by the Reubenites in the time of Saul. is no doubt the same people which emerges about 100 under the name, as a body of fierce and predatory mountaineers settled in the Anti-Lebanon (see Schürer, GJV, i. 707 ff.).—Of  nothing is known. Should we read as 1 Ch. 5$19$ (Ball, Kit.)?—16. ] 'in their settlements' or 'villages'; cf. Is. 42$11$ 'the villages that Kedar doth inhabit.'—] (Nu. 31$10$, Ezk. 25$4$, Ps. 69$26$, 1 Ch. 6$39$) is apparently a technical term for the circular encampment of a nomadic tribe. According to Doughty (i. 261), the Arab, dīrah denotes the Bedouin circuit, but also, in some cases, their town settlements.—] 'according to their peoples.' is the Ar. 'ummat, rare in Heb. (Nu. 25$15$, Ps. 117$1$ † ).—17. Cf. vv.$7. 8$.

V.$18$ is a stray verse of J, whose original setting it is impossible to determine. There is much plausibility in Ho.'s conjecture that it was the conclusion of J's lost genealogy of Ishmael (cf. 10$19. 30$). Gu. thinks it was taken from the end of ch. 16: similarly Meyer, who makes $11b$ (p. 352 above) a connecting link. Di. suggests that the first half may have followed 25$6$, the reference being not to the Ishmaelites but to the Ḳeṭureans; and that the second half is a gloss from 16$12$. But even $18a$ is not consistent with $11b$, for we have seen that the Ḳeṭureans are found E and SE of Palestine, and Shûr is certainly not 'eastward' from where