- DRUSILLA third and youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I. (Acts
12:1-4, 20-23). Felix, the Roman procurator of Judea, induced her to leave
her husband, Azizus, the king of Emesa, and become his wife. She was
present with Felix when Paul reasoned of “righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come” (Acts 24:24). She and her son perished in the eruption
of Mount Vesuvius, A.D. 79. - DUKE derived from the Latin dux, meaning “a leader;” Arabic, “a sheik.”
This word is used to denote the phylarch or chief of a tribe (Genesis
36:15-43; Exodus 15:15; 1 Chronicles 1:51-54). - DULCIMER (Hebrews sumphoniah), a musical instrument mentioned in
Daniel 3:5, 15, along with other instruments there named, as sounded
before the golden image. It was not a Jewish instrument. In the margin of
the Revised Version it is styled the “bag-pipe.” Luther translated it “lute,”
and Grotius the “crooked trumpet.” It is probable that it was introduced
into Babylon by some Greek or Western-Asiatic musician. Some
Rabbinical commentators render it by “organ,” the well-known instrument
composed of a series of pipes, others by “lyre.” The most probable
interpretation is that it was a bag-pipe similar to the zampagna of Southern
Europe. - DUMAH silence, (comp. Psalm 94:17), the fourth son of Ishmael; also the
tribe descended from him; and hence also the region in Arabia which they
inhabited (Genesis 25:14; 1 Chronicles 1:30).
There was also a town of this name in Judah (Joshua 15:52), which has
been identified with ed-Domeh, about 10 miles southwest of Hebron. The
place mentioned in the “burden” of the prophet Isaiah (21:11) is Edom or
Idumea.