דִּיבוֹןDîybôwn
Dibon, the name of three places in Palestine
Pronunciation: dee-bome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1769
Meanings
1. city in Moab (Numbers 21:30; Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:34)
2. place in Judah, toward south = דִּימוֺנָה (Nehemiah 11:25; Joshua 15:22)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 21:30 We have utterly destroyed them, from Heshbon to Dibon. We have completely wiped them out as far away as Nophah and Medeba.”
- Numbers 32:3 “Notice the towns of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sibmah, Nebo, and Beon.
- Numbers 32:34 The descendants of Gad built the towns of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
- Numbers 33:45 They left Iye-abarim and camped at Dibon-gad.
- Numbers 33:46 They left Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
- Joshua 13:9 Their territory extended from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Gorge (including the town in the middle of the gorge) to the plain beyond Medeba, as far as Dibon.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).