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# חֶשְׁבּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2809

**Heshbon** — used 38 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

Heshbon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2809/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶשְׁבּוֹן²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2809/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. of the city of Sihon king of the Amorites Nu 21:26, 27, 28, 30, 34; 32:3 (all E); Dt 1:4; 2:24, 26, 30; 3:2, 6; 4:46; 29:6 Jos 9:10; 12:2, 5; 13:10, 21, 27 (all D) Ju 11:19 Je 48:45 Ne 9:22; captured by Israel who dwelt in it Nu 21:25 (E) Ju 11:26; rebuilt by Reuben Nu 32:37 (E), given to Reuben at the division of the land Jos 13:17 (P); on the border of Gad, Jos 13:26 (P), it subsequently fell to Gad and was assigned to Levites out of that tribe Jos 21:39 (P) 1 Ch 6:66; the Moabites gained possession of it Is 15:4; 16:8, 9 and subsequently the Ammonites Je 48:2, 34, 45; 49:3; it was celebrated for its ponds Ct 7:5.—Mod. Ḥusbân, SeetzenReisen i. 407 RobBR i. 551 BdPal 191 SurveyEP 8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 37 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Heshbon (23); of Heshbon (13); O Heshbon (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.27/#tree)

עַל־כֵּ֛ן יֹאמְר֥וּ הַמֹּשְׁלִ֖ים בֹּ֣אוּ חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן תִּבָּנֶ֥ה וְתִכּוֹנֵ֖ן עִ֥יר סִיחֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* therefore they.say \[those who\].speak.proverbs come Heshbon let.it.be.rebuilt and let.it.be.established the.city of.Sihon

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore they that speak in parables say: Come ye to Heshbon! let the city of Sihon be built and established!

[Numbers 32:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.37/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֤י רְאוּבֵן֙ בָּנ֔וּ אֶת־חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־אֶלְעָלֵ֑א וְאֵ֖ת קִרְיָתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Reuben they.built (et) Heshbon and (et) Elealeh and (et) Kiriathaim

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2809/): 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).