Genesis 10:27 and 1 Chronicles 1:21 both name him as a "son" of Yoktan, descendant of Shem, but using the word "son", as we have now seen many times, to mean "tribe" or "clan".
Except that, surely, the word is feminine!
Diklah is known to be a region of Yoktanite Arabia, abundant in palm trees - Dakal (דקל) in both Yehudit and Arabic, and Dakla (דקלא) in Aramaic, all mean "palm tree".
His son Yerach (ירח) is treated by the Arab genealogists as being the father of the Yemen. However Yerach in Yehudit is linked to Yareyach (ירח) = "the moon".
Is there a link between Diklah and Chidekel (חדקל), which in Aramaic is Digla, assumed to be the river Tigris?
Is there a link between Diklah and Chidekel (חדקל), which in Aramaic is Digla, assumed to be the river Tigris?
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