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title: גּוֹזָן — Gozan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גּוֹזָן (1470), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Gozan. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גּוֹזָן

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«גּוֹזָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gozan** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 1470 · **BDB:** גּוֹזָן

### Glosses

of.Gozan (3); Gozan (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gozan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1470/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1470/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (Assyrian Guzana COT 2 K 17:6 DlPa 184) city and district of Mesopotamia, on or near the middle course of the Euphrates, through which the river Chabur (חָבוֹר) flowed; thither some of the exiled Israelites were brought \[by Sargon, b.c. 722–21\]: גּוֹזָן 2 K 19:12=Is 37:12; חָבוֹר נְהַר גּוֹזָן 2 K 17:6; 18:11; וְחָבוֹר וְהָרָא וּנְהַר גּוֹזָן 1 Ch 5:26 where Chabur is separated entirely from the river of Gozan (v. חבור).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גּוֹזָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1470/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 18:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.11/)

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וַיֶּ֧גֶל מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֛וּר אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אַשּׁ֑וּרָה וַיַּנְחֵ֞ם בַּחְלַ֧ח וּבְחָב֛וֹר נְהַ֥ר גּוֹזָ֖ן וְעָרֵ֥י מָדָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.took.into.exile the.king of.Assyria (et) Israel to Assyria and he led.them in Halah and on.\[the\] Habor the.river of.Gozan and the.cities of.Media

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;

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[2 Kings 19:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.12/)

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הַהִצִּ֨ילוּ אֹתָ֜ם אֱלֹהֵ֤י הַגּוֹיִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר שִׁחֲת֣וּ אֲבוֹתַ֔י אֶת־גּוֹזָ֖ן וְאֶת־חָרָ֑ן וְרֶ֥צֶף וּבְנֵי־עֶ֖דֶן אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּתְלַאשָּֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* did they.deliver? them the.gods of the.nations which they.destroyed ancestors my (et) Gozan and (et) Haran and Rezeph and the.people of.Eden who \[were\].in Telassar

*JPS 1917:* Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?

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