2. (Sept 'Pifivd V. r. *PovfM ; Vnlgate ^^\} town in the mountain district of Judah (JoA.n.2i in the group west by south of Hebroo (M,G*^ in loc.). Eusebius and Jerome (OnomaM. i. ▼■^'^ Duma) say it was then alarge viDage (niflFT^JJ 17 miles ftt>m Eleutheropolis (BeitJibrin), is *e * trict of Daroma Q: e. "the south," from the Betef Di*l"J). Dr. Robmson possed the nrins of • nCtf called ed-Daumehj 6 miles sooth-west of Hetns(** i, 314), and thb is probablv the same place. (S« «* Kicpert's Map, 1856 ; and Van de VeMe'i Jft«*^ ^ 808).
Dumb (dI», iBem'; but in Hah. u,9,B«^** Gr. Kw^oQy which also signifies deaf, since the twt^ fects generally accompany each other; •!» «^7 tpeechlett, Mark vii, 87; ix, 17, 25; a^-rec,'**^ Act8viii,82; 1 Cor. xii,2; 2 Pet.ii,16; sadiw»^ Luke i, 20), has the following rignificatioos: (LI »• unable to speak by reason of natural hifintuty^^ iv, 11). <2.) One unable to speak by reswa rf«s of knowing what to say, or how to say it; «*•* fj^ er mode of address to' use, or what rea«« *» »^ in his own behalf (Prov. xxxi, 8). (8.) Oi» "T ing to speak (Psa. xxxix, 9). We have » i^ able instanee of thb venerating dumbness, or w»ft in the case of Aaron (Lev. x, 8), after Nadsb wjifr hu, his sons, were consumed by fire. "^•""VrJ peace ;" did not exclaim against the joitioe « ^ but saw the propriety of the dtroie procednt i» humbly acquiesced in it, Christ restored » »» '■ was dumb from dmnoniacal influence (Mittix,*- j Luke xi, 14), and another who was both M <^
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b from the same cause (Matt, xii, 22). The man I was deaf and had an impediment in his speech ; rk vii, 82-85), whom Christ restored, was not dumb, probably deaf 6y nature, but was one who had a iral impediment to enunciation, or who, having Y lost his bearing, gradually lost much of his cb, and had become a stammerer. Such an im- ment is either naimralj arising from what is called r, or ulcer, by which any one is, as we say, tongue- or brought on when, fh>m an early loss of hear- the membrane of the tongue becomes rigid and ble to perform its office. 1^ Deaf ; Silence. hunont, Gabriel, was bom at Crest, in Dau- ly, Aug. 10, 1680. His first settlement was over Walloon church in Leipzig. In 1720 he was call- o Rotterdam. Here he was held in very high es- ition. He was also for a time chaplain to the ^ embassy at Paris. His essays, included in Sau- s Diacaura sur la Bible, and also in Bfasson's Uistoire ique de la r^mblique des leUres^ bear witness to his snsive knowledge, and especially to his acquaint- e with the Oriental languages. A volume of val- le sermons from tus pen was published after his th by his colleague, De Superville (Rotterdam, 1749, ). He died Jan. 1,1748. >n Moulin, Charles. See Moulin, Du. Da MotQin, Pierre. See Moulin, Du. Dtunplers, a name of reproach given to the Don- «, or German Baptists. See Baptists, German. Dnnasli ben-Labrath ha-Levi, an eminent fish scholar, was bom in Bagdad about A.D. 920, nt most of his life at Fez, and died at Cordova mt A.D. 98Q. His writings contributed largely to t development of Hebrew lexicography and Biblical igesis. These writings are chiefly in the form of itroversies with Saadia (q. v.) and Menachem ben- ruk (q. v.). His criticisms of the grammatical and egetical works of Saadia are entitled ni:i^;z?r) *1&D t Book o/Animadffemons), only fragments of which nain. They show that he was a better gramma- n, especially as to knowledge of the verb, than Sa- ia. These fragments are preserved in the ^H^ t^B^, fork of Aben Ezra (q. v.) written in defence of Sa- ia, published with a critical commentary by Lipp- inn, and with a preface by Jost (Frankf. a. M. 1843). a criticism of Menachem*s Hebrew Lexicon con- ns, according to Ftirst, 200 articles, each concluding th some terse remark or saying in rhyme. It was blbhed with notes by H. Filipowski, and with re- irks by Leopold, Dukes, and Earchheimer, by the ndon Antiquarian Society (Lond. and Edinb. 1855). le principal points may be summed up in the follow- l : 1. Dunash classifies verbs and adverbt separately, d objects to the derivation of the former from the ter. 2. Distinguishes the terrnU letters of verbs »m nouns similar in form by grammatical rules. 8. lows the advantage of the application of the Chaldee d Arabic in the explanation of Hebrew words. 4. iparts in more than twenty-four different verses »m the Masoretic text, which by many are thought yield a better sense. FUrst sayv of this work that is " of great interest in relation to a knowledge of ebrcw philology, of the new Hebrew poetry, and of e state of Jewish culture in Spain in the tenth cen- ry.** The influence which Dunash exercised over wish grammarians and expositors of the Bible is en in the ft^uent quotations made ftt>m his works ' the principal lexicographers and commentators, ch as Rashi, Joseph Cara, Aben-Ezra, and Kimchi. — ukes. Liter. MittkeiL iher die altesL hebrdischen Ex- ften, Cframmatiher u. Lexicoffrcq)hen (Stuttg. 1844), 149, etc ; Steinschneider, Cat. libr, Uebr, ; Ether- ge, Introduction to Jl^r, Literature, p. 878 and 879 ; Irst, Hebrew and Chaldee Lericon (Leipe. and Lond. ^*\ Preface, zzv sq. ; Kitto, Cyclop, i, 709.