Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
חֶשְׁבּוֹן
- Transliteration
- Cheshbôwn
- Pronunciation
- khesh-bone'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 38
Glosses
Heshbon.
Lexicon definition
Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan
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Heshbon
A celebrated city beyond Jordan, twenty miles eastward of that river, according to Eusebius. It was given to the tribe of Reuben, Josh. Heshbon is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “invention; industry.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- H2809
- Hebrew
- חֶשְׁבּוֹן · Cheshbôwn
- Name meaning
- invention; industry According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
H2809
Greek lexical coverage
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Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Heshbon
invention; industry
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
HESHBON
a celebrated city beyond Jordan, twenty miles eastward of that river, according to Eusebius. It was given to the tribe of Reuben, Josh. xiii, 17. It was probably made over to Gad, since we meet with it among the cities which were given to the Levites, Joshua xxi, 39.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Heshbon
Indexed occurrences: 37
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All Scripture references38 references
Numbers 8
Deuteronomy 8
Joshua 10
Judges 2
1 Chronicles 1
Nehemiah 1
Song of Solomon 1
Isaiah 3
Jeremiah 4
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
HESHBON
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for HESHBON.
Indexed references: 7
Scripture references:
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Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Heshbon
Meaning:
invention; industry
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Topic
HESHBON
Nave’s Topical Bible references for HESHBON.
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Bath-rabbim
Daughter of many, the name of one of the gates of the city of Heshbon, near which were pools (Cant. 7:4).
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Fish-pools
(Cant. 7:4) should be simply "pools," as in the Revised Version. The reservoirs near Heshbon (q.v.) were probably stocked with fish (2 Sam. 2:13; 4:12; Isa. 7:3; 22:9, 11).
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Heshbon
invention; industry
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