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Numbers 21

Num. 21:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
all these cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
: and Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
dwelt
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in all the cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
of the Amorites
'Emoriy (Hebrew #567)
thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes
KJV usage: Amorite.
Pronounce: em-o-ree'
Origin: probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from 559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence
, in Heshbon
Cheshbown (Hebrew #2809)
Cheshbon, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Heshbon.
Pronounce: khesh-bone'
Origin: the same as 2808
, and in all the villages
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
νthereof.
ν
daughters.

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Amorite,
Heshbon,
Israel,
Villages

Cross References

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dwelt.
Num. 21:31• 31And Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. (Num. 21:31)
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Num. 32:33‑42• 33And Moses gave to them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and territories, the cities of the land round about.
 34And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
 35and Atroth-Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbebah,
 36and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-haran, strong cities, and sheepfolds.
 37--And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,
 38and Nebo, and Baal-meon (of which the names were changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities that they built.
 39--And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and they dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
 40And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
 41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their hamlets, and called them Havoth-Jair.
 42And Nobah went and took Kenath, and its dependent villages, and called it Nobah, after his name. (Num. 32:33‑42)
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Deut. 2:12• 12And in Seir dwelt the Horites in times past; and the children of Esau dispossessed them, and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.) (Deut. 2:12)
in Heshbon.Heshbon was situated, according to Eusebius, twenty miles east of Jordan; and Jerome, who places it at the same distance, says it was, in his time, a very considerable city.
It still subsists, in ruins, under the name of Heshban.
Song of Sol. 7:4• 4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, like the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus; (Song of Sol. 7:4)
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Isa. 15:4• 4And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul trembleth in him. (Isa. 15:4)
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Isa. 16:8‑9• 8For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.
 9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest. (Isa. 16:8‑9)
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Jer. 48:2,34,45• 2Moab's praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall pursue thee.
 34Because of the cry from Heshbon, unto Elaleh, unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar unto Horonaim, unto Eglath-shelishijah: for even the waters of Nimrim shall become desolations.
 45They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon powerless; for a fire hath come forth from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath consumed the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the sons of tumult. (Jer. 48:2,34,45)
villages.
Heb. daughters.
Ezek. 16:46,49,53• 46And thine elder sister is Samaria that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
 49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
 53And I will bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them; (Ezek. 16:46,49,53)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, at Heshbon, and in all its dependent villagesa.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "daughters." see Note at 2 Sam. 20.19.