the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #1769 - דִּיבֹן
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- Dibon = "wasting"
- a town in Moab on the east side of the Jordan which was taken over by the Israelites and rebuilt by the children of Gad
- a place in south Judah reinhabited by the men of Judah after the return from captivity
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1 city in Moab (MI21; 28 דיבן, compare ib.1 adjective, of a people הדיבני) — דִּיבֹן Numbers 21:30; Numbers 32:3,34 (built up or at by Gad) Isaiah 15:2; in territory of Gad, hence דִּיבֹן גָּד֑ Numbers 33:45,46 (compare on these verses & Numbers 32:34 MI10f.); also דִּיבוֺן Joshua 13:9,17; Jeremiah 48:22; ישֶׁבֶת בַּת דִּיבוֺן Jeremiah 48:18; = דִּימוֺן Isaiah 15:9, see also מֵי דִימוֺן Isaiah 15:9 = Arnon, compare Che & Hpt ZA 1887,268; — modern Dîbân, north of Arnon, compare Seetzen:Reisen i. 409 Tristr Land of Moab 132ff. Bd Pal 193.
2דִּיבֹן Nehemiah 11:25 place in Judah, toward south = דִּימוֺנָה Joshua 15:22, compare Hpt l.c.; conjectures by Kn Ke (compare Di) to be Tell ed Dheib (van de Velde Mem. 252) called also Ehdeib (Rob BR ii. 102).
דִּיג, דַּיָּג see below דגה.
דַּיָּה see below דאה.
דְּיוֺ see below דוה.
