Dumah is an angel mentioned in Rabbinical literature. Dumah is a popular figure in Yiddish folklore. I. B. Singer's Short Friday (1964), a collection of stories, mentions Dumah as a "thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a fiery rod or flaming sword." Dumah is the Aramaic word for silence.

The angel

Duma(h) or Douma (Aramaic) is the angel of silence and of the stillness of death.

Dumah is also the tutelary angel of Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

, prince of Hell

Hell

In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...

, and angel of vindication. The Zohar speaks of him as having "tens of thousands of angels of destruction" under him, and as being "Chief of demons in Gehinnom [i.e., Hell] with 12,000 myriads of attendants, all charged with the punishment of the souls of sinners." In the Babylonian legend of the descent of Istar

Istar

Istar can refer to:* One of the Istari, the "wizards" in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world.*Istar, a fictional city set in the fantasy world of Krynn in the Dragonlance setting of the Dungeons & Dragons game....

 into Hades

Hades

Hades , Hadēs, originally , Haidēs or , Aidēs , meaning "the unseen") was the ancient Greek god of the underworld. The genitive , Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades". Eventually, the nominative came to designate the abode of the dead.In Greek mythology, Hades...

, Dumah shows up as the guardian of the 14th gate.

Other references

• Dumah
  Dumah (son of Ishmael)
  Dumah was the sixth son of Ishmael, the son of biblical Abraham and Hagar.-Biblical references:The generations of Ishamel are the ninth recorded in the Book of Genesis...
  
   is one of the twelve sons of Ishmael
  Ishmael
  Ishmael is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, and was Abraham's first born child according to Jews, Christians and Muslims. Ishmael was born of Abraham's marriage to Sarah's handmaiden Hagar...
  
   and the "burden of Dumah" is mentioned in Isaiah
  Isaiah
  Isaiah ; Greek: ', Ēsaïās ; "Yahu is salvation") was a prophet in the 8th-century BC Kingdom of Judah.Jews and Christians consider the Book of Isaiah a part of their Biblical canon; he is the first listed of the neviim akharonim, the later prophets. Many of the New Testament teachings of Jesus...
  
   21:11, possibly as a prophecy.
• Dumah is a city associated with the descendants of Ishmael that was known to the Assyrian empire as Adummatu and is known in modern times as Dumat Al-Jandal
  Dumat Al-Jandal
  Dumat al-Jundal , is the name for an ancient city of ruins located in North Western Saudi Arabia in the Al Jawf province its located 37KM away from Sakakah. The name Dumat al-Jandal means literally "Dumah of the Stone", since this was the territory of Dumah, one of the twelve sons of Ishmael...
  
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• Doma (a variation of Dumah) the Angel of Silence is a card in the card game Yu-Gi-Oh.
• Dumah makes an appearance in DC Comic's The Sandman series, specifically "The Season of Mists". He, along with Ramiel, become the keepers of Hell after Lucifer abandons his throne.