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title: בָּשָׁן — Bashan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּשָׁן (1316), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 60 times: Bashan. BDB 1906: n.pr.terr.m. Bashan. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּשָׁן

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«בָּשָׁן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bashan** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 60 times · **Key:** 1316 · **BDB:** בָּשָׁן

### Glosses

Bashan (54); of.Bashan (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Bashan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1316/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.terr.m. Bashan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1316/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr.m. Dt 3:3 (smooth (\& fertile) land) Bashan, first mentioned as kingdom of Og, E. of Jordan, stretching from stream Jabboḳ (thus including northern Gilead) northward to Hermon, between Gennesaret (W) and mts of Hauran (E); cf. Di Nu 21:33 Wetzst Hauran 82; later a type of fertility;—usually c. art. הַבּ׳ Nu 21:33(×2); 32:33; Dt 1:4 + 30 times Dt Jos; 1 K 4:13, 19 2 K 10:33; 1 Ch 5:11, 12, 16, 23; 6:47, 56; Ne 9:22 ψ 68:23; 135:11; 136:20; Je 22:20; 50:19 (‖ הַכַּרְמֶל), Mi 7:14 (‖ id.), Na 1:4) (‖ id.; personif., subj. of אֻמְלַל), Is 33:9 (‖ id.; personif. subj. of נֹעֵר); הַר־בָּשָׁן (i.e. range of Hauran) ψ 68:16(×2) (called הַר־אלהים,—from a sanctuary there?—\& הַר־גַּבְנֻנִּים many-peaked mt.); of stately trees אַלּוֹנֵי הַבּ׳ Is 2:13 (still seen on western slope of mts. of Hauran, Wetzst Hauran 88); אַלּוֹנֵי ב׳ Zc 11:2 (fig. of prominent men); אַלּוֹנִים מִבּ׳ Ez 27:6; of bulls אַבִּירֵי ב׳ ψ 22:13 (‖ פָּרִים, fig.); so בְּנֵי־ב׳ Dt 32:14 (+ כָּרִים וְאֵילִים also עַתּוּדִים, cf. בָּקָר \& צֹאן v a; vid. בֵּן 1. j. (ν)); appar. more general is מְרִיאֵי ב׳ Ez 39:18 (ref. to אֵילִים כָּרִים וְעַתּוּדִים פָּרִים … כֻּלָּם); once of kine (fem., fig. of luxurious and haughty women of Samaria) Am 4:1 פָּרוֹת הַבּ׳.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּשָׁן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1316/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 22:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.13/)

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סְ֭בָבוּנִי פָּרִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים אַבִּירֵ֖י בָשָׁ֣ן כִּתְּרֽוּנִי׃

*Word for word:* they have.surrounded.me bulls many mighty.\[bulls\] of.Bashan they have.surrounded.me

*JPS 1917:* Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

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[Psalms 68:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.16/)

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הַר־אֱ֭לֹהִים הַר־בָּשָׁ֑ן הַ֥ר גַּ֝בְנֻנִּ֗ים הַר־בָּשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* O.mountain of.God O.mountain of.Bashan O.mountain of.peaks O.mountain of.Bashan

*JPS 1917:* A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan.

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