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# דִּישֹׁון

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1787

**Dishon** — used 7 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

Dishon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1787/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּישֹׁן²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1787/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a son of Seir דִּשׁוֹן Gn 36:21 = דִּישֹׁן 1 Ch 1:38; a son of Anah & grandson of Seir דִּשֹׁ֑ן Gn 36:25 cf. v 30 so also v 26 (for דִּישָׁן q.v.) = דִּישׁוֹן 1 Ch 1:41(×2), 42, cf. also foll.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Dishon (4); of Dishon (2); \[were\] Dishon (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.25/#tree)

וְאֵ֥לֶּה בְנֵֽי־עֲנָ֖ה דִּשֹׁ֑ן וְאָהֳלִיבָמָ֖ה בַּת־עֲנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.children of.Anah Dishon and Oholibamah the.daughter of.Anah

*JPS 1917:* And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.

[1 Chronicles 1:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.42/#tree)

בְּֽנֵי־אֵ֔צֶר בִּלְהָ֥ן וְזַעֲוָ֖ן יַעֲקָ֑ן בְּנֵ֥י דִישׁ֖וֹן ע֥וּץ וַאֲרָֽן׃פ

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Ezer \[were\].Bilhan and Zaavan Jaakan the.sons of.Dishon \[were\].Uz and Aran

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1787/): 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).