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



and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,

It has gone up [to] the house, and Dibon [to] the high places for weeping over Nebo, and Moab wails over Medeba. {Every head is bald}, every beard [is] shaved.

For the waters of Dimon are full [of] blood; but I will place added things upon Dimon: a lion for the survivors of Moab and for [the] remnant of [the] land.

Come down from glory and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your fortifications.


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

The descendants of Gad rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, and Aroer,

Heshbon and its cities that [are] on the plateau; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

from Aroer, which [is] on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and the city which [is] in the middle of the wadi, and all the plateau [from] Medeba up to Dibon;


Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,


We destroyed them; Heshbon has perished up to Dibon; we laid waste up to Nophah, which {reaches} Medeba."


They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad.


As for the villages in their territories, [some] from the descendants of Judah lived in Kiriath-Arba and {its settlements}, Dibon and {its settlements}, Jekabzeel and {its settlements},


References

Hastings

Easton

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Smith