The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. Sons of Eliphas - the tribe Adites, in the center country of the Saracens, so called from his mother, Adah (Genesis 36:10).
Teman - gave rise to the land of Teman, near the head of the Red Sea.
Omar - the tribe Beni Aroma settled at the northern point of Djebel Shera (mount Seir).
Zephi - the tribe Dzaf.
Gatam i:e. Katam, inhabited by the tribe Al Saruat, or 'people of Sarah.'
Kenaz - the tribe Aenezes, a tribe whose settlement lies in the neighbourhood of Syria.
Timna, and Amalek - i:e., and from Timna, Amalek, the Beni Malak of Zohran, and the Beni Maledj of the Shat el-Arab.
Reuel - a powerful branch of the great Aeneze tribe, the Rowalla Arabs.
Shammah - the great tribe Beni Shammar. In the same way the names of the other kings and dukes are traced in the modern tribes of Arabia. But it is unnecessary to mention anymore of those obscure nomads, except to notice that Jobab (1 Chronicles 1:44), one of the kings of Edom, is considered to be Job, and that his seat was in the royal city of Dinahab (Genesis 36:32), identified with O'Daeb, a well-known town in the center of Al Dahna, a great northern desert in the direction of Ohaldea and the Euphrates (Forster).