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Strong Concordance Ge 36:43 Duke [0441] Magdiel [04025], duke [0441] Iram [05902]: these be the dukes [0441] of Edom [0123], according to their habitations [04186] in the land [0776] of their possession [0272]: he is Esau [06215] the father [01] of the Edomites [0123].

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DUKE In Ge 36:15-43, is a long list of "dukes" of Edom; but the word duke, from the Latin dux, merely signifies a leader, and not an order of nobility; and the word chief or sheikh would have been preferable in our translation, 1Ch 1:51.
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