דִּיבוֹן
Dîybôwn · dee-bome'
Dibon, the name of three places in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: or (shortened) דִּיבֹן; from H1727 (דּוּב); pining
Dibon, the name of three places in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Dibon. (Also, with H1410 (גָּד) added, Dibon-gad.)
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the hand that works › the house, what is within › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in of the hand that works of the house, what is within that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דִּיבוֹן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- dibon3 · 27%
- even unto dibon1 · 9%
- and dibon1 · 9%
- in dibongad1 · 9%
- from dibongad1 · 9%
- unto dibon1 · 9%
- thereof, and at dibon1 · 9%
- and to dibon1 · 9%
- and upon dibon1 · 9%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.