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Lexicon :: Strong's H2809 - ḥešbôn

Aa
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 BoxNum 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:25 - And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:27 - So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:30 - They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I have given him up into your hands, with all his people and his land; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at Heshbon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:37 - And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:4 - After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - Get up now, and go on your journey, crossing over the valley of the Arnon: see, I have given into your hands Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and all his land: go forward to make it yours, and make war on him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:26 - Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:30 - But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - On the far side of Jordan, in the valley facing Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel overcame after they had come out of Egypt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:7 - When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10 - And what he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, at Ashtaroth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, as far as the river Jabbok, the limits of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:5 - Ruling in the mountain of Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, as far as the limits of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, to the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:10 - And all the towns of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, to the limits of the children of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:17 - Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:26 - And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the edge of Debir;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 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, king of Heshbon, having Jordan for its limit, to the end of the sea of Chinnereth on the east side of Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:39 - Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:81

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:81 - And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:22 - And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:4 - Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9 - For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 - The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:45 - Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.
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