chesh.bon is a proper place-name, chiefly the city associated with Sihon and later named in territorial and lament contexts.

The term is consistently marked as a proper noun and names a city or locality: it is associated with Sihon in conquest accounts, appears among territorial towns and settlements, and is addressed or located within cries and devastation in later passages.

1. Proper name of a city or locality · dominant

   The supplied morphology marks the form as a proper noun. In Numbers 21:26 the APB renders the clause "Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorite"; Joshua 13:17 places it with its towns on the plain, while Jeremiah 48:34 locates a raised cry "From Heshbon to Elealeh and to Jahaz."

   Numbers 21:26Numbers 21:25Joshua 13:17Joshua 21:39Jeremiah 48:34Isaiah 16:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly retains the name "Heshbon," sometimes explicitly calling it a city or pairing it with towns, fields, or neighboring places. Its wording does not visibly represent the supplied token in Deuteronomy 29:6 or Song of Songs 7:5, so the translation cannot always isolate the term's contribution.