cheshbon · Heshbon

What it means

cheshbon (חֶשְׁבּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Heshbon”.

A city east of the Jordan, the capital of King Sihon.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×8
• Deuteronomy×8
• Joshua×9
• Judges×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5

• Numbers 21:25

  And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its villages.

• Numbers 21:26

  For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and he had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

• Numbers 21:27

  Therefore those who recite poems say, “Come to Heshbon; let it be built, and let the city of Sihon be established.

• Numbers 21:28

  For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

• Numbers 21:30

  But we shot them down; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon, and we laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches as far as Medeba.”

• Numbers 21:34

  But YHWH said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

• Numbers 32:3

  “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

• Numbers 32:37

  The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

• Deuteronomy 1:4

  after he had struck Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, in Edrei.

• Deuteronomy 2:24

  “Rise up, set out, and cross the Wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and provoke him to war.

• Deuteronomy 2:26

  So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

• Deuteronomy 2:30

  But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass by him, for YHWH your Elohim had hardened his spirit and made firm his heart, in order to give him into your hand, as it is this day.

• Deuteronomy 3:2

  YHWH said to me, “Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

• Deuteronomy 3:6

  We devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones.

• Deuteronomy 4:46

  beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 29:7

  And you came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us in battle, and we struck them down.

• Joshua 9:10

  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorite who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth.

• Joshua 12:2

  Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

• Joshua 12:5

  and ruled over Mount Hermon and over Salecah and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

• Joshua 13:10

  and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;

• Joshua 13:17

  Heshbon and all its cities that are on the plateau: Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

• Joshua 13:21

  and all the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck, him and the chiefs of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

• Joshua 13:26

  and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

• Joshua 13:27

  and in the valley: Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, as far as the end of the Sea of Chinnereth, beyond the Jordan to the east.

• Joshua 21:39

  Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands —four cities in all.

• Judges 11:19

  Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Let us pass, please, through your land to my place.’

• Judges 11:26

  While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are along the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them at that time?

• 1 Chronicles 6:81

  Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.

• Nehemiah 9:22

  And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and distributed them by regions; and they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

• Song of Songs 7:4

  Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

• Isaiah 15:4

  And Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; as far as Jahaz their voice is heard; therefore the armed men of Moab shout; his soul trembles within him.

• Isaiah 16:8

  For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its choice branches; as far as Jazer they reached, they wandered into the wilderness; its shoots spread out, they crossed over the sea.

• Isaiah 16:9

  Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; for on your summer fruit and on your harvest the shout has fallen.

• Jeremiah 48:2

  There is no more praise for Moab; in Heshbon they have planned evil against her: “Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.” You too, Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will go after you.

• Jeremiah 48:34

  From the outcry of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will be desolations.

• Jeremiah 48:45

  In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stood without strength; for fire went out from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and it consumed the temple of Moab and the crown of the sons of tumult.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Gird on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the enclosures; for their king will go into exile, his priests and his princes together.

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