Beon

Beon is a place name appearing once in the UPDV — in the list of Trans-Jordan cities that the Reubenites and Gadites ask Moses to assign them. It stands at the end of a string of named towns east of the Jordan, and the same chapter later names Baal-meon among the cities the same tribes rebuild and rename, which is the basis for treating Beon as another form of that town.

Beon in the Trans-Jordan Petition

When Reuben and Gad approach Moses to ask for the conquered land east of the Jordan as their inheritance, they catalogue the cities by name: "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon," (Nu 32:3). Beon closes the list, paired with Nebo immediately before it.

The Renaming as Baal-meon

Later in the same chapter, when the Reubenites have rebuilt and resettled the cities, the parallel list runs: "and Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built" (Nu 32:38). The parenthetical — flagged in the UPDV footnote as an ancient gloss — notes that Nebo and Baal-meon were renamed when rebuilt. Beon and Baal-meon stand in the same slot, paired with Nebo, in the two parallel lists, which is why the umbrella treats them as the same Trans-Jordan town.