ShadowxXxDweller
Dumah and Wormwood
Posted on: 11/24/2008 19:13
I know i'm not likely to get an answer for this one, but I can't find anything on these two biblical characters: Dumah and Wormwood.
From what I gather, Dumah is a demon, and Wormwood is some kind of prince of air or star.
Does anyone have their stories? And if so, could you please share them? Thanks so much! ^-^
Comments
crazyheart
Posted on: 11/24/2008 21:07
Dumah - the forth son of Ishmael; also the tribe descending from him, and hence the region in Arabia which they inhabited. - Gen:25:14; 1Chron. 1:30
Wormwood is noted for its intense bitterness. It is a type of bitterness - affliction, remorse, punitive suffering. Deut: 29:18 ; Prov. 5:4 ; Amos 5:7
In Amos 6:12 it is called "hemlock"
In the symbolic language of the Apocalypse (Rev 8:10,11), a star is represented as falling on the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to turn wormwood.
Hope this helps.
from Todays Dictionary of the Bible
stardust
Posted on: 11/24/2008 21:20
Shadow old kid !
Dumah is mentioned in Isaiah 21- verses 11 and 12 but I don't understand it ; a vision.
Quotes:
Dumah - The Angel of Silence, who represents the vindication of Hells deathly stillness.
Dumah (Duma, Douma) is Aramaic for "Silence", and is described in the Zohar as "chief of demons in Gehinnom"
Commentators favoring a naturalistic interpretation of Revelation 8:10 relate it to the last days, seeing Wormwood as a meteor fated to strike the earth and cause environmental calamities.[9] Others, while not specifying a precise method, see in the verse a "personification of something God threatens to do to [His] people when they allow themselves to be deceived by false prophets."[10]
A number of Bible scholars consider the term Wormwood to be a purely symbolic representation of the bitterness that will fill the earth during troubled times, noting that the plant for which Wormwood is named, Artemisia absinthium, is a known Biblical metaphor for things that are unpalatably bitter.[
ShadowxXxDweller
Posted on: 11/24/2008 21:18
Hey! I'm not an old kid! lol And i've never heard of Dumah in video games... lol maybe I don't play them enough. And about Wormwood. It's interesting, I thought he was good but apparently not! lol Thank you guys! ^-^
stardust
Posted on: 11/24/2008 23:25
Shadow
Video games ? There's nothing about video games in my post to you on my computer !!! I was going to mention them but I deleted it. It looks like my computer is really messed up if my post looks different to me than it does to you .....Yikes....God only knows what people are reading!!!! My edit button erased on my computer but I guess it didn't on yours.....????
stardust
Posted on: 11/25/2008 00:40
Yippee ......I see your black wolf ....I would like to have him....laugh! Did you get him on your computer? I had to go into tools......delete the files again....I just did it today already to see my own avatar.
revjohn
Posted on: 11/25/2008 12:32
Hi ShadowDwellerxXx
Wormwood as a demon is, I believe, the creation of C.S. Lewis. Wormwood was the demon who had his mail intercepted as he was being lectured by his uncle Screwtape about how to ensnare a human.
Grace and peace to you.
John
trishcuit
Posted on: 11/25/2008 19:38
which makes me wonder...who has my new copy of Screwtape Letters? I loaned it to someone.