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title: דִּיבֹן — Dibon. (Als · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דִּיבֹן (1769), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: Dibon. (Als. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דִּיבֹן

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«דִּיבֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Dibon. (Als** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 1769 · **BDB:** דִּיבֹן

### Glosses

Dibon (8); Dibon- (2); of.Dibon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Dibon. (Als [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1769/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1769/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc.— city in Moab (MI21, 28 דיבן, cf. ib.1 adj. gent. הדיבני)—דִּיבֹן Nu 21:30; 32:3, 34 (built up or at by Gad) Is 15:2; in territory of Gad, hence דִּיבֹן גָּ֑ד Nu 33:45, 46 (cf. on these vv. \& 32:34 MI10 f.); also דִּיבוֹן Jos 13:9, 17 Je 48:22; ישֶׁבֶת בַּת דִּיבוֹן Je 48:18; = דִּימוֹן Is 15:9, vid. also מֵי דִימוֹן v 9 = Arnon, cf. Che \& HptZA 1887, 268;—mod. Dîbân, north of Arnon, cf. SeetzenReisen i. 409 TristrLand of Moab 132 ff. Bd.Pal. 193 דִּיבֹן Ne 11:25 place in Judah, toward south = דִּימוֹנָה Jos 15:22, cf. Hptl.c.; conject. by Kn Ke (cf. Di) to be Tell ed Dheib (vandeVeldeMem 252) called also Ehdeib (RobBR ii. 102)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דִּיבֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1769/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 33:45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.45/)

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וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵעִיִּ֑ים וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּדִיבֹ֥ן גָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Iim and they.encamped at Dibon- gad

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Ijim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.

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[Numbers 32:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.34/)

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וַיִּבְנ֣וּ בְנֵי־גָ֔ד אֶת־דִּיבֹ֖ן וְאֶת־עֲטָרֹ֑ת וְאֵ֖ת עֲרֹעֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.built the.descendants of.Gad (et) Dibon and (et) Ataroth and (et) Aroer

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer;

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