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# דִּיבֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1769

**Dibon. (Als** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Dibon. (Als [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1769/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּיבֹן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1769/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc.— city in Moab (MI21, 28 דיבן, cf. ib.1 adj. gent. הדיבני)—דִּיבֹן Nu 21:30; 32:3, 34 (built up or at by Gad) Is 15:2; in territory of Gad, hence דִּיבֹן גָּ֑ד Nu 33:45, 46 (cf. on these vv. & 32:34 MI10 f.); also דִּיבוֹן Jos 13:9, 17 Je 48:22; ישֶׁבֶת בַּת דִּיבוֹן Je 48:18; = דִּימוֹן Is 15:9, vid. also מֵי דִימוֹן v 9 = Arnon, cf. Che & HptZA 1887, 268;—mod. Dîbân, north of Arnon, cf. SeetzenReisen i. 409 TristrLand of Moab 132 ff. Bd.Pal. 193 דִּיבֹן Ne 11:25 place in Judah, toward south = דִּימוֹנָה Jos 15:22, cf. Hptl.c.; conject. by Kn Ke (cf. Di) to be Tell ed Dheib (vandeVeldeMem 252) called also Ehdeib (RobBR ii. 102)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Dibon (8); Dibon- (2); of Dibon (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 33:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.45/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵעִיִּ֑ים וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּדִיבֹ֥ן גָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Iim and they.encamped at Dibon- gad

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Ijim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.

[Numbers 32:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.34/#tree)

וַיִּבְנ֣וּ בְנֵי־גָ֔ד אֶת־דִּיבֹ֖ן וְאֶת־עֲטָרֹ֑ת וְאֵ֖ת עֲרֹעֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.built the.descendants of.Gad (et) Dibon and (et) Ataroth and (et) Aroer

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1769/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).