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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H5511

סִיחוֹן

Sichonsee-khone'

Sihon

37 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Çîychôwn

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5511is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5511

Sichon, an Amoritish king

The King James renders it: Sihon.

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

Sichon is rendered "Sihon". It stands 37 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 21:21Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

Numbers 21:21סִיחֹ֥ן

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's thirty-seven uses are in Deuteronomy.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Sihon29
  • to Sihon8

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.

All 37, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 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

  • סִיחוֹן֙5
  • סִיחֹן֙4
  • לְסִיחֹן֙2
  • סִיח֥וֹן2
  • סִיח֔וֹן2
  • סִיחֽוֹן׃2
  • סִיחֹ֣ן2
  • סִיחֹ֨ן2
  • לְ֭סִיחוֹן1
  • לְסִיח֥וֹן1
  • לְסִיחוֹן֙1
  • לְסִיח֤וֹן׀1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)29HNpm
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)8HR/Npm

Numbers

nine uses
  • Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

    Numbers 21:21

    • סִיחֹ֥ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

    Numbers 21:23

    • סִיחֹ֣ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
    • סִיחֹ֜ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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.

    Numbers 21:26

    • סִיחֹ֛ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

    Numbers 21:27

    • סִיחֽוֹן׃sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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.

    Numbers 21:28

    • סִיחֹ֑ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

    Numbers 21:29

    • סִיחֽוֹן׃sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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.”

    Numbers 21:34

    • לְסִיחֹן֙lesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon
  • So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.

    Numbers 32:33

    • סִיחֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon

Deuteronomy

eleven 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.

    Deuteronomy 1:4

    • סִיחֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • “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.

    Deuteronomy 2:24

    • סִיחֹ֨ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

    Deuteronomy 2:26

    • סִיח֖וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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.

    Deuteronomy 2:30

    • סִיחֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

    Deuteronomy 2:31

    • סִיחֹ֖ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

    Deuteronomy 2:32

    • סִיחֹ֨ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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.”

    Deuteronomy 3:2

    • לְסִיחֹן֙lesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon
  • We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

    Deuteronomy 3:6

    • לְסִיחֹ֖ןlesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon
  • 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.

    Deuteronomy 4:46

    • סִיחֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.

    Deuteronomy 29:7

    • סִיחֹ֣ןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.

    Deuteronomy 31:4

    • לְסִיח֥וֹןlesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon

Joshua

eight uses
  • For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

    Joshua 2:10

    • לְסִיחֹ֣ןlesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon
  • 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.

    Joshua 9:10

    • לְסִיחוֹן֙lesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon
  • 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,

    Joshua 12:2

    • סִיחוֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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.

    Joshua 12:5

    • סִיח֥וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;

    Joshua 13:10

    • סִיחוֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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.

    Joshua 13:21

    • סִיחוֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
    • סִיח֔וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • 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).

    Joshua 13:27

    • סִיחוֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon

Judges

four 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.’

    Judges 11:19

    • סִיח֥וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

    Judges 11:20

    • סִיח֤וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
    • סִיחוֹן֙sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon
  • Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,

    Judges 11:21

    • סִיח֧וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon

1 Kings

one use
  • Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.

    1 Kings 4:19

    • סִיח֣וֹן׀sichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon

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.

    Nehemiah 9:22

    • סִיח֗וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon

Psalms

two uses
  • Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.

    Psalms 135:11

    • לְסִיח֤וֹן׀lesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon
  • Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.

    Psalms 136:19

    • לְ֭סִיחוֹןlesichonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sihon

Jeremiah

one use
  • “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.

    Jeremiah 48:45

    • סִיח֔וֹןsichonproper noun (a name)tagged: Sihon

The letters

Gematria 134· 784 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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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