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(Heb. Samlah', ùִׂîְìָä , a garment; Sept ÓáëáìÜ , ÓáìáÜ , v.r. ÓáìáäÜ , ÓåâëÜ ), a king who reigned in Edom before the Israelites had a king (Gen_36:36-37; 1Ch_1:47-48). B.C. post 1618. He was the successor of Hadad or Hadar, and was of Masrrekah, that being probably the chief city during his reign. This mention of a separate city as belonging to each (almost without exception) of the “kings” of Edom suggests that the Edomitish kingdom consisted of a confederacy of tribes, and that the chief city of the reigning tribe was the metropolis of the whole.