Dibon: meaning of the name
Dibon means “abundance of knowledge.”
Places named Dibon
Dibon in Scripture
“Dibon” appears in 11 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.
- Numbers 21:30
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 32:3
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Numbers 32:34
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
- Numbers 33:45
And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon–gad.
- Numbers 33:46
And they removed from Dibon–gad, and encamped in Almon–diblathaim.
- Joshua 13:9
From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
- Joshua 13:17
Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth–baal, and Beth–baal–meon,
- Nehemiah 11:25
And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath–arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,