Dibon in the Bible

Meaning: abundance of knowledge

Exact Match

They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

The waters of Dibon are full of blood,
but I will bring on Dibon even more than this—
a lion for those who escape from Moab,
and for the survivors in the land.


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Verse ConceptsSurvivors DestroyedTurned To Blood

Thematic Bible



Dibon, Nebo, Beth-diblathaim,

Dibon went up to its temple
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.

The waters of Dibon are full of blood,
but I will bring on Dibon even more than this—
a lion for those who escape from Moab,
and for the survivors in the land.


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Come down from glory; sit on parched ground,
resident of the daughter of Dibon,
for the destroyer of Moab has come against you;
he has destroyed your fortresses.


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

The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

with Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau—Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, all the Medeba plateau as far as Dibon,


Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,


We threw them down;
Heshbon has been destroyed as far as Dibon.
We caused desolation as far as Nophah,
which reaches as far as Medeba.


They departed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.


As for the farming settlements with their fields:

Some of Judah’s descendants lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages,
Dibon and its villages, and Jekabzeel and its villages;


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Morish

Smith

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