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# דִּישָׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1789

**Dishan** — used 5 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

Dishan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1789/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּישָׁן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1789/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a son of Seir דִּישָׁ֑ן Gn 36:21 (𝔊 Ῥισών; so v 28, 30 cf. Di) 1 Ch 1:38; (v 42 read דִּישׁוֹן q.v.) Gn 36:26 (read דִּישׁוֹן 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Ol Di) v 30 דִּישָׁ֖ן Gn 36:28.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, 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: Dishan (3); of Dishan (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.28/#tree)

אֵ֥לֶּה בְנֵֽי־דִישָׁ֖ן ע֥וּץ וַאֲרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.sons of.Dishan Uz and Aran

*JPS 1917:* These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

[Genesis 36:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.26/#tree)

וְאֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֣י דִישָׁ֑ן חֶמְדָּ֥ן וְאֶשְׁבָּ֖ן וְיִתְרָ֥ן וּכְרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.sons of.Dishan Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Keran

*JPS 1917:* And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1789.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1789/): 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).