Dim^'nah (Heb. Dimnah\ S^J^?, a dung-hiU; Sept. Itfivdy Vulg. Danna)^ a Levitical city of the tribe of Zebulon, assigned to the family of the Merarites (Josh. xxi, 35). Gesenius, however, suggests that in this place we ought rather to read njia"!, Rimmonah, the Remmon (q. V.) mentioned in a similar connection in Josh, zix, 13 ; 1 Chron. vi, 62 (see Bertheau, Chnmik, p. 72, 73; Movers, Chronihy p. 72).
Di'mon ('(i^"^?, by an interchange of letters for *i*H'^^, Dihon^ for the sake of alliteration with ti'n^ blood, in the same verse ; Sept. Aitfuiiv v. r. 'P*/i/«ui/, Vulg. D%bon\ a city of the Moabites, with streams
("waters**) adjacent (Isa. xv, 9);
ver. 2) more properly called Dibov (q. v.).
Dimo'nah (Heb. DmumakT, tiT'orn, far ifr. Dibon; Sept Atfuavd v. r. 'Pty/td, YtHg. Limm. city in the south-east of Jndah, Kinah and Adadah (Josh, xv, 22) ; dsewiiec ^ xi, 25) more properly called Dibos (q. t.).
Di^nah (Heb. Dmah^, n^'n, judged, L e. (Mb tedy from the same root as Dax ; Sept. Auve; im^ Aavo, Ant. i, 21, 1), the daughter of Jacob tr Im (Gen. XXX, 21), and therefore full msXa of ' andLevL Bom B.C. 1913. While Jacob*i a in the neighboiiiood of Shechem, IKnal^ by curiosity, went out "to see the dang^itastfa land,** most probably to a festival, idieB ^v»» duced by Shechem, the eon of Hamor, the ffi\& rU or head-man of the town. Her age at this tmujif^ ing by the subsequent notice of Joeeph^i ^i M xxxvii, 2), may have been from thii^cn te tts. the ordinary period of marriage in Hasten (Lane*s Mod. Egypt, i, 208). Partly frt>m dresi d^ consequences of bis misconduct, and partly, it rxi seem, out of love for the damsel, he solicM a riage with her, leaving the " marriage ^ns" [« Marriage] to be fixed by her famfly. Suck n^ tion would have been deemed sufficient unto tkHr sale law (Deut xxii, 28, 29) among the me^a^ i the Hebrew nation. But in this case the an alien, and the crown of the ofiense amnstedki having been committed by an alien against ^ krwt people of God; he had '^wron^t folly ia IssC (Gen. xxxiv, 7). The proposals of Hamcr, v^va as his deput}', were framed on the recognitko UA hitherto complete separation of the two pecfiHh proposed the fusion of the two by the estab^fe^ of the rights of intermarriage and ccnnmerce, jeai among the Romans the jtu comwbU and the ^ » mercU constituted the essence of cttUas. T^ h&c Jacob, bent upon revenge, availed tbcmseh^ ^a eagerness which Shechem showed to dket l^p- pose ; they demanded, as a condition of dw fsqem. union, the circumcision of the Shechemites: tbrprr tice could not have been uniuoown to the HiiiKiE the Phoenicians (Herod, ii, 104), and protabirBM^ the Canaanitish tribes, were circnmcised. Ersss was therefore yielded; and Simeon and LeTitmti most barbarous advantage of the comploBoe It fu- ing upon the town on the third day, when ^ pep were disabled by the effects of the operatktt, ne^ them all (Gem xxxiv). For this act of trnlj 07ia3> vindictiveness no excuse can be offocd, sad hr repeatedly alludes to it with abhorrence and n^- (Gen. xxxiv, 30; xlix, 5-7). To nndenrtaad tki^- at all, however, it is necessary to remember Hui ir stain upon the honor of a sister, and espedslK^c only sister (see Kiemeyer, Charait, ii, HZ iq.'^ > even at this day considered as an insuppottllr > grace and inexpiable ofivnce among all tbt wm^ tribes of Western Asia. If the wonum be m^^ brothers more than her fiither — if she be msnki ^ brothers more than her husband, are B^pkrti. ^ are considered bound to avenge the wrong. ^^ the active vengeance of Dinah's full brothsR, f^^ comparative passiveness of her father in theeetm^- tions. Jacob*s remark (ver. 30), fanoweTec, <fe6 ^ mply merely guiltiness on the part of his sou a 1* transaction, but he dreaded the revenge of the seli boring peoples, and even of the fiunily ef Hiar. some of whom appear to have survived the wMSuff (Judg. ix, 28). His escape, which was ynm&e^ considering the extreme rigor with which the k«i ' blood-revenge (q. v.) have in all ages prevailed ie a East, is ascribed to the special interference of Jek^s (xxxv, 5). Josephus omits all reference to the tn^ ery of the sons of Jacob, and explains the ea^ ture of the dty as occnixing during the celebra^^
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ast (^Ant, iy 21, 2). The object for which this nar- ve is introdaced into the book of Grenesis probably tartly to expUin the allusion in Gen. xlix, 5-7|
partly to exhibit the consequences of any assoda- i on the part of the Hebrews with the heathens at them. Ewald {Gegch, Itr, i, 40) arbitrarily as- les an actual ftision of the nomad Israelites with the rigines of Shechem, on the ground that the daugh-
of the patriarchs are generally noticed with an lological view. It appears from Gen. xlvi, 15 that lah continued unmairied in the patriarch's family, accompanied him into Egypt— Kitto, s. y. ; Smith, . See Jacob.
>i''naite (Chald. Dma^\ «!?r?> ®' unknown, but bably Median origin, used as a plur. ; Sept. A<i- oc ; Vulg. Dinai\ one of the foreign tribes colo- m1 by the Assyrian general Asnapper in place of