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MADMEN.—A place in Moab, which, if the MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] be correct, has not been identified. The name occurs only in Jer_48:1-47 [Gr. Jer_31:2], where there is a characteristic word-play: gam Madmçn tiddômî, ‘also, O Madmen, thou shalt be brought to silence’ (LXX [Note: Septuagint.] kai pausin pausetai). It is a very natural suggestion that the initial m of Madmen has arisen by dittography from the final m of the preceding word, and that for Madmen we should read Dimon (cf. Isa_15:9), i.e. Dibon (cf. Jer_48:18). Cf. art. Medeba.