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. ("dust", which the following words, "roll thyself in the dust," allude to). Identified by Winer with Ophrah of Benjamin (); or, as Rabbi Tanchum, a town near Jerusalem. The prophet tells his countrymen not to declare their sorrow in hostile Gath, but in their own cities.