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Lexicon :: Strong's H2809 - ḥešbôn

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חֶשְׁבּוֹן
Transliteration
ḥešbôn
Pronunciation
khesh-bone'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

חֶשְׁבּוֹן Cheshbôwn, khesh-bone'; the same as H2808; Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan:—Heshbon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H2809 in the following manner: Heshbon (38x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H2809 in the following manner: Heshbon (38x).

  1. Heshbon = "stronghold"

    1. the capital city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, located on the western border of the high plain and on the border line between the tribes of Reuben and Gad

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֶשְׁבּוֹן Cheshbôwn, khesh-bone'; the same as H2808; Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan:—Heshbon.
STRONGS H2809: Abbreviations
† II. חֶשְׁבּוֺן proper name, of a location of the city of Sihon king of the Amorites Numbers 21:26, 27, 28, 30, 34; Numbers 32:3 (all E); Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 2:24, 26, 30; Deuteronomy 3:2, 6; Deuteronomy 4:46; Deuteronomy 29:6; Joshua 9:10; Joshua 12:2, 5; Joshua 13:10, 21, 27 (all D) Judges 11:19; Jeremiah 48:45; Nehemiah 9:22; captured by Israel who dwelt in it Numbers 21:25 (E) Judges 11:26; rebuilt by Reuben Numbers 32:37 (E), given to Reuben at the division of the land Joshua 13:17 (P); on the border of Gad, Joshua 13:26 (P), it subsequently fell to Gad and was assigned to Levites out of that tribe Joshua 21:39 (P) 1 Chronicles 6:66; the Moabites gained possession of it Isaiah 15:4; Isaiah 16:8, 9 and subsequently the Ammonites Jeremiah 48:2, 34, 45; Jeremiah 49:3; it was celebrated for its fish ponds Cant 7:5. — Modern Ḥusbân, SeetzenReisen i. 407 RobBR i. 551 BDPal 191 SurveyEP 8.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

21:25; 21:26; 21:27; 21:28; 21:30; 21:34; 32:3; 32:37

Deuteronomy

1:4; 2:24; 2:26; 2:30; 3:2; 3:6; 4:46; 29:6

Joshua

9:10; 12:2; 12:5; 13:10; 13:17; 13:21; 13:26; 13:27; 21:39

Judges

11:19; 11:26

1 Chronicles

6:66

Nehemiah

9:22

Song of Songs

7:5

Isaiah

15:4; 16:8; 16:9

Jeremiah

48:2; 48:34; 48:45; 48:45; 49:3

H2809

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2809 matches the Hebrew חֶשְׁבּוֹן (ḥešbôn),
which occurs 38 times in 37 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, at Heshbon, and in all its dependent villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:27 - Therefore the poets say, Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be built and established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - For there went forth fire from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:30 - And we have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon; and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Fear him not! for into thy hand have I given him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:3 - Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jaazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:37 - -- And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:4 - after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon. Behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land: begin, take possession, and engage with him in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 - And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:30 - But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obdurate, that he might give him into thy hand, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - And Jehovah said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I given him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, men, women and little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - on this side the Jordan, in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote when they came out of Egypt;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:7 - And ye came to this place; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for battle, and we smote them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10 - and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og the king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the ravine, and over half Gilead, as far as the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:5 - and ruled over mount Hermon, and over Salcah, and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half Gilead as far as the border of Sihon the king of Heshbon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - and all the cities of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plateau, Dibon, and Bamoth-Baal, and Beth-Baal-meon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - all the cities of the plateau, and the whole kingdom of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, whom Moses smote, him and the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon dwelling in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:26 - and from Heshbon to Ramath-Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon the king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, as far as the edge of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39 - Heshbon and its suburbs, Jaazer and its suburbs: four cities in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its dependent villages, and in Aroer and its dependent villages, and in all the cities that are along the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years -- why did ye not recover them within that time?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:81

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:81 - and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jaazer and its suburbs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:22 - And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, like the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:4 - And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul trembleth in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9 - Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - Moab's praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall pursue thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 - Because of the cry from Heshbon, unto Elaleh, unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar unto Horonaim, unto Eglath-shelishijah: for even the waters of Nimrim shall become desolations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:45 - They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon powerless; for a fire hath come forth from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath consumed the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the sons of tumult.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - Howl, Heshbon! for Ai is laid waste; cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth, lament and run to and fro within the enclosures: for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
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