Strong's Hebrew · H1769

דִּיבוֹן

Dîybôwn · dee-bome'

Dibon. (Also, with H1410 (גָּד) added, Dibon-gad.)

Definition

Dibon, the name of three places in Palestine

Derivation

or (shortened) דִּיבֹן; from H1727 (דּוּב); pining

Appears 11 times in Scripture

Jeremiah 48:18

Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

Joshua 13:9

The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

Numbers 21:30

But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Numbers 33:45

They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

Numbers 33:46

They set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

Numbers 32:34

And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Joshua 13:17

to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

Nehemiah 11:25

As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba, Dibon, Jekabzeel, and their villages;

Numbers 32:3

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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