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Leummites
Excerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary, the most advanced Bible dictionary.
Also called Leummim. The descendants of Leummim, who was a son of Dedan and a descendant of Abraham by Keturah (Gen 25:3).
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The Lexham Bible Dictionary
Leummites
Leummites (לאמי‎, l'my). Also called Leummim. The descendants of Leummim, who was a son of Dedan and a descendant of Abraham by Keturah (Gen 25:3).
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
Leummim
LEUMMIM [Heb lĕʾummı̂m (לְאֻמִּים)]. A clan name mentioned in the genealogy of Abraham by his wife Keturah in Gen 25:3. Leummim is listed as one of the three sons of Abraham’s grandson Dedan, the son of Jokshan. These three sons are not found in the matching, but abbreviated, genealogical clan list
Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
Leummim
Leummim. Third of Dedan’s three sons and, with Latushim, a descendant of Abraham and Keturah through Jokshan’s line (Gn 25:3).See Letushim.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
Leummim
Leummim lə-umʹim [Heb. leʾummîm] (Gen. 25:3). An obscure Arabian tribe listed with the Asshurim and Letushim as descendants of Abraham and Keturah through Dedan.
Tyndale Bible Dictionary
Leummim, Leummites
LEUMMIM*, LEUMMITES Tribe founded by the third of Dedan’s three sons, a descendant of Abraham and Keturah through Jokshan’s line (Gn 25:3). The tribe probably settled in northern Arabia.
The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia
Leummim
LEUMMIM. One of the three Semitic tribes descended from Abraham and Keturah through Dedan (Gen 25:3). Not positively identified but possibly located in Transjordan or Arabia (cf. Gen 25:6).
Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
Leummim
Leummim (Heb. lĕʾummɩ̂m)An Arabian people tracing descent from Dedan, the grandson of Abraham and Keturah (Gen. 25:3).
Eerdmans Bible Dictionary
Leummim
Leummim [lē ŭmˊĭm] (Heb. le˒ummîm). An Arabian people descended from Dedan, the grandson of Abraham and Keturah (Gen. 25:3).
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Leummim
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.
The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary
Leummim
LEUM´MIM (le-umʹim; “nations, peoples”). The last of the three sons of Dedan, grandson of Abraham by Keturah (Gen. 25:3), or more probably a tribe descended from Dedan, among whose descendants they appear as third. Some have identified them with the Alumeotai of Ptolemy (6.7.24); but the Alumeotai of
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Leummim
Leummim—peoples; nations, the last mentioned of the three sons of Dedan, and head of an Arabian tribe (Gen. 25:3).
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Dedan (descendant of Abraham)