Word

חֶשְׁבּוֹן

Cheshbôwn · H2809 · Hebrew · proper noun · 38 occurrences

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Place

Heshbonfirst named in Numbers 21:2537 verses

Meanings

Heshbon

A town in the territory of Gad, former residence of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had taken it from Moab, assigned to the clan of Merari and later occupied by Moab

Examples
Deuteronomy 1:4 after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
Deuteronomy 2:24 ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the Valley of Arnon. Look! I have handed over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; start taking possession and plunge into battle with him.
Deuteronomy 2:26 “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דִּיבוֹןDibon 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

זָעַקto cry out 1
אָבַדto perish, to destroy 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 19
מִןfrom 5

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

13 occurrences in 4 groups

מֶלֶךְking 10
זַעַקcry 1
צֵלshadow, shade 1
שְׁדֵמָהfield 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Think002004002013: This entry carries no independent "Think" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of חֶשְׁבּוֹן (Numbers 21:25-30 and elsewhere) is the proper name Heshbon, a Transjordanian city, not the abstract noun for reckoning or thinking. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled common noun for "account, reasoning" (חֶשְׁבּוֹן (cheshbôwn, H2808)), from which this place name derives. See חֶשְׁבּוֹן (cheshbôwn, H2808).
Names of Locations003001010: חֶשְׁבּוֹן names Heshbon, the Amorite city of Sihon that Israel took and later rebuilt, repeatedly cited as a boundary city of Reuben and Gad (Numbers 21:25-27).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2809. Cheshbon II. חֶשְׁבּוֺן proper name, of a location of the city of Sihon king of…

H2809. Cheshbon
II. חֶשְׁבּוֺן proper name, of a location of the city of Sihon king of the Amorites Num 21:26-27, Num 21:28, Num 21:30, Num 21:34; Num 32:3 (all E); Deu 1:4; Deu 2:24, Deu 2:26, Deu 2:30; Deu 3:2, Deu 3:6; Deu 4:46; Deu 29:6; Jos 9:10; Jos 12:2, Jos 12:5; Jos 13:10, Jos 13:21, Jos 13:27 (all D) Jdg 11:19; Jer 48:45; Neh 9:22; captured by Israel who dwelt in it Num 21:25 (E) Jdg 11:26; rebuilt by Reuben Num 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) 1Ch 6:66; the Moabites gained possession of it Isa 15:4; Isa 16:8-9, and subsequently the Ammonites Jer 48:2, Jer 48:34, Jer 48:45; Jer 49:3; it was celebrated for its fish ponds Cant 7:5. — Modern „usbân, SeetzenReisen i. 407 RobBR i. 551 BDPal 191 SurveyEP 8.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0