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Strong's H2809 חֶשְׁבּוֹן (cheshbon)

Cheshbon means “Heshbon” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2809 — klemma (“theft”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2809
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 37
Books 9

Strong's H2809 Quick Answer

Strong's H2809 חֶשׁבּוֹן (Cheshbown) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Cheshbown (khesh-bone') n/l. 1. Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan [the same as H2808] It has 37 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include heshbon, jordan, and place. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Cheshbown (khesh-bone') n/l. 1. Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan [the same as H2808]
Usage
37 linked usages
Books
9 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
heshbon, jordan, and place

Meaning and Definition

Cheshbown (khesh-bone') n/l. 1. Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan [the same as H2808] KJV: Heshbon. Root(s): H2808

Original Word
חֶשׁבּוֹן
Transliteration
Cheshbown
Derivation
First root strongs: 2808
Morphology
Name/l.

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2809. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Heshbon

Usage: § Heshbon = "stronghold" the capital city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, located on the western border of the high plain and on the border line between the tribes of Reuben and Gad

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How Strong's H2809 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Cheshbown, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Heshbon Numbers 21:25 32× Jordan Deuteronomy 4:46 place Deuteronomy 29:7

How Strong's H2809 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 37 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2809 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2809 in the Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Numbers 21:25 KJV

And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

Numbers 21:26 KJV

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

Numbers 21:27 KJV

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

Usage Excerpts

First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2809.

Numbers 21:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
Numbers 21:26 Old Testament, KJV
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
Numbers 21:27 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
Numbers 21:28 Old Testament, KJV
For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
Numbers 21:30 Old Testament, KJV
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
Numbers 21:34 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
Numbers 32:3 Old Testament, KJV
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Numbers 32:37 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
Deuteronomy 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
Deuteronomy 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
Deuteronomy 2:26 Old Testament, KJV
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:30 Old Testament, KJV
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
Deuteronomy 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
Deuteronomy 3:6 Old Testament, KJV
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
Deuteronomy 4:46 Old Testament, KJV
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 29:7 Old Testament, KJV
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
Joshua 9:10 Old Testament, KJV
And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
Joshua 12:2 Old Testament, KJV
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 12:5 Old Testament, KJV
And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Joshua 13:10 Old Testament, KJV
And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 13:17 Old Testament, KJV
Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
Joshua 13:21 Old Testament, KJV
And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
Joshua 13:26 Old Testament, KJV
And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
Joshua 13:27 Old Testament, KJV
And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
Joshua 21:39 Old Testament, KJV
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
Judges 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
Judges 11:26 Old Testament, KJV
While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
1 Chronicles 6:81 Old Testament, KJV
And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
Nehemiah 9:22 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Song of Solomon 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Isaiah 15:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
Isaiah 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
Isaiah 16:9 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
Jeremiah 48:2 Old Testament, KJV
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah 48:34 Old Testament, KJV
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 48:45 Old Testament, KJV
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jeremiah 49:3 Old Testament, KJV
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2809, grouped by book.

Numbers 8 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 8 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 9 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H2809 FAQ

What does cheshbon (חֶשְׁבּוֹן) mean?

Cheshbon (Strong's H2809) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Heshbon". Cheshbown (khesh-bone') n/l. 1. Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan [the same as H2808]

How many times is cheshbon (חֶשְׁבּוֹן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's H2809 across 9 books.

Where can I study cheshbon (חֶשְׁבּוֹן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2809 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate cheshbon (חֶשְׁבּוֹן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as heshbon, jordan, and place. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.