Hebrew word · H3522

כַּבּוֹן

vekhabon

Cabbon

A proper name for a settlement in the Shephelah, the low hill country between Judah's highlands and the coastal plain. It has no secure meaning as an ordinary word. Some connect it with a root having to do with binding or wrapping around, but that is a guess.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Cabbon = "the builder"

a town in the low country of Judah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Joshua 15:40

Range of meaning

A proper name for a settlement in the Shephelah, the low hill country between Judah's highlands and the coastal plain. It has no secure meaning as an ordinary word. Some connect it with a root having to do with binding or wrapping around, but that is a guess.

Against the English

English versions differ only in spelling: 'Cabbon' (KJV, BSB, WEB, ESV) or 'Kabbon' (some modern versions that write Hebrew k as K).

Used elsewhere in the period

Named only in Joshua 15:40. Some scholars have suggested it is the same place as Machbenah (Makbena) in Judah's family lists (1 Chronicles 2:49), because the consonants are similar. That identification is possible but not proven.

Where it appears

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 15:40 וְכַבּ֥וֹן and Cabbon

    Cabbon, Lahmas, Chitlish,

    Here: A town in Judah's lowland district. The opening 'and' (וְ) carries on the list from verse 39. The name appears nowhere else in the Bible, and where the town stood is not known for certain.

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