be put somewhere in the desert E of Palestine or Edom. The Nabatæans
of a later age (see Schürer, GJV3. 4, i. 728 ff.) were naturally identified with
(
Hebrew characters) by Jos. (Ant. i. 220 f.), Jer. (Qu.), TJ [(Hebrew characters)], as they still are by Schr.,
Schürer, and some others. But since the native name of the Nabatæans
was (Hebrew characters), the identification is doubtful, and is now mostly abandoned.
The two tribes are mentioned together in Is. 607: (Hebrew characters) alone only Gn.
289 363; but (Hebrew characters) 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 TJ (Hebrew characters)).—(Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters): see
on v.3)] Perhaps an Arab tribe Idibi'il which Tiglath-pileser IV. (KIB,
ii. 21) appointed to watch the Egyptian frontier (not necessarily the
border of Egypt proper).—(Hebrew characters)] a Simeonite clan (1 Ch. 425), otherwise
not known.—14. (Hebrew characters) follows (Hebrew characters) in 1 Ch. 425. Di. compares a Ǧebel Misma' SE of Kāf, and another near Ḥāyil E of Teima.—(Hebrew characters)] 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 (Greek characters) of Ptol. v. 18 (19). 7, the Domata of Plin. vi. 157.—(Hebrew characters)] See
on 1030, and cf. Pr. 311. A tribe Mas'a is named by Tiglath-pileser
IV. along with Teima (v.15), Saba', Hayapa (4), Idibi'il (13), and may be
identical with the (Greek characters) of Ptol. v. 18 (19). 2, NE of (Greek characters).—15. (Hebrew characters)]
unknown.—(Hebrew characters) (Is. 2114, Jer. 2523, Jb. 619) 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.—(Hebrew characters) and (Hebrew characters)
are named together in 1 Ch. 519 among the East-Jordanic tribes defeated
by the Reubenites in the time of Saul. (Hebrew characters) is no doubt the same people
which emerges about 100 B.C. under the name (Greek characters), as a body of
fierce and predatory mountaineers settled in the Anti-Lebanon (see
Schürer, GJV, i. 707 ff.).—Of (Hebrew characters) nothing is known. Should we read
(Hebrew characters) as 1 Ch. 519 (Ball, Kit.)?—16. (Hebrew characters)] 'in their settlements' or
'villages'; cf. Is. 4211 'the villages that Kedar doth inhabit.'—(Hebrew characters)] (Hebrew characters)
(Nu. 3110, Ezk. 254, Ps. 6926, 1 Ch. 639) 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.—(Hebrew characters)] 'according to their peoples.' (Hebrew characters)
is the Ar. 'ummat, rare in Heb. (Nu. 2515, Ps. 1171 † ).—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. 1019. 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 256, the reference being not to the Ishmaelites but to the Ḳeṭureans; and that the second half is a gloss from 1612. 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
