Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H2809
חֶשְׁבּוֹן
Cheshbonkhesh-bone'
Heshbon
38 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Cheshbôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2809is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2809
Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan
The King James renders it: Heshbon.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Cheshbon is rendered "Heshbon". It stands 38 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 21:25Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
Numbers 21:25בְּחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nine of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Heshbon21
- in Heshbon11
- from Heshbon2
- O Heshbon2
- and from Heshbon1
- and Heshbon1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֶשְׁבּוֹן | cheshbon | explanation | Uses3 |
| חֶשְׁכָה | cheshkah | dark | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 38, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן5
- חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹן5
- חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן4
- חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן3
- חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙3
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹן2
- בְּחֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃2
- חֶשְׁבּ֜וֹן2
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן1
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן1
- וְחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן1
- וּמֵחֶשְׁבּ֛וֹן1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)23HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)13HR/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
Numbers
eight uses
Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
- חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
- חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
- מֵֽחֶשְׁבּ֔וֹןmecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Heshbon
But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
- חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
- בְּחֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃becheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- וְחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹןvecheshbonconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heshbon
The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
- חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
Deuteronomy
eight uses
This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
- חֶשְׁבּ֧וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
- חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
- חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
- בְּחֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃becheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
- חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
- חֶ֠שְׁבּוֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
Joshua
nine uses
and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
- חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
- חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃cheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
- חֶשְׁבּ֥וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
- וּמֵחֶשְׁבּ֛וֹןumecheshbonconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and from Heshbon
and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth).
- חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.
- חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙cheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
Judges
two uses
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’
- חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֨וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
1 Chronicles
one use
Heshbon, and Jazer, together with their pasturelands.
- חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙cheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
Nehemiah
one use
You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
- חֶשְׁבּ֔וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
Song of Solomon
one use
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
Isaiah
three uses
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
- חֶשְׁבּוֹן֙cheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
- חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: O Heshbon
Jeremiah
five uses
There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- בְּחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹןbecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Heshbon
There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
- חֶשְׁבּ֜וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
- חֶשְׁבּ֛וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: Heshbon
- מֵחֶשְׁבּ֗וֹןmecheshbonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Heshbon
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
- חֶשְׁבּ֜וֹןcheshbonproper noun (a name)tagged: O Heshbon
The letters
Gematria 366· 1,016 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
