Esebon, They of

Es'ebon, They Of (οιΕ῾᾿σεβωνίται v. r. οἰ Ε᾿σεβών, Vulg. Hesebon), a Graecized form of the name of certain Canaanites beyond Jordan referred to in the Apocrypha (Jude 5:15) as having been destroyed by the Israelites; evidently the inhabitants of HESHBON SEE HESHBON (q.v.) of the O.T. (Nu 21:26).