Diklah (Hastings' Dictionary)

The name of a son of Joktan (Gn 10", 1 Ch 1-'), probably representing a nation or community. The Aramaic name for the river "Tigris (Dildath) is practically identical with this form, aiid hence the conjecture ol Michaelis, that Diklah signified the dwellers on • Cf. Macbeth, it. iii. Ill : ' Died everj- day (he lived," a leool lection, no doubt, of 1 Co 15" ' I die daily.'

DILAN DIONTSIA 607 that riTer, is not wholly improbable ; we know, however, of no community so called, and the home of such of the Joktanidne as can be identified with certainty is in Arabia. The word dakal (in Syr. dekli', ' palm ') is well kno«Ti in Arabic, and signifies dry dat«s of bad quality ; as they possess no cohesive power, to 'scatter like rlnhal' is a proverbial phrase.

The geo'rraphcr Yakut knows of a place in Yemamah called Daknlnh, ' where there were palm trees,' of too little importance to be connected with the son of Joktan ; moreover, the corresponding form in Hebrew should be Dek&l&b rather than Uiklah. The names imme- diately preceding and following Diklah give no clue to its identihcation. D. S. Margoliouth. DILAN (li'^-i), Jos 15".— A town of Judah in the same group with Lachish and Eglon. The mte is unknown. C. R. CONDEE.