burden. The sixth of the seven burdens.

Dumah. Edom. An abbreviated form of fuller name "Idumea" (Isaiah 34:5.Ezekiel 35:15; Ezekiel 36:5.Mark 3:8; Mark 3:8).

Dumah. silence, prophetic of its end.

Seir. The inheritance of Esau (or Edom).

what of the night?. how far is it in the night? Note the Figure of speech Epizeuxis. Repeated in an abbreviated form thus: Hebrew. shomer mah-millayelah? shomer ma-milleyl. = how far gone is the night? how far gone the night? This is Edom's inquiry.

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