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title: גֹּשֶׁן — Goshen · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֹּשֶׁן (1657), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: Goshen. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֹּשֶׁן

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«גֹּשֶׁן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Goshen** — 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:** 15 times · **Key:** 1657 · **BDB:** גֹּ֫שֶׁן

### Glosses

of.Goshen (11); Goshen (2); to (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Goshen [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1657/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1657/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (on etym. cf. Di Gn 45:10)— district in Egypt E. of lower Nile, v. Eb GS 500 ff.; Naville Goshen, 1887, who reads hierogl. Kesem, but cf. Groff JAs xiv. 527 (𝔊 Γεσεμ (Ἀραβιας))—אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן Gn 45:10 (JE) 46:34; 47:1, 4, 6, 27; 50:8; Ex 8:18; 9:26 (all J); אַ֫רְצָה גֹּשֶׁן Gn 46:28 (J); גֹּ֑שְׁנָה v 28, 29 (both J), in both 𝔊 καθʼ Ἡρώων πόλιν cf. Di (P has land רעמסס 47:11 etc., cf. Di Gn 45:10). ארץ הַגֹּשֶׁן Jos 11:16 (D), אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן Jos 10:41 (D), גֹּשֶׁן Jos 15:51 (P) (𝔊 in all Γοσομ) a city named with חֹלֹן \& גִּלֹה cf. Di.—not clearly located, but on southern border of Judah.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֹּשֶׁן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1657/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 9:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.26/)

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רַ֚ק בְּאֶ֣רֶץ גֹּ֔שֶׁן אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לֹ֥א הָיָ֖ה בָּרָֽד׃

*Word for word:* only in the.land of.Goshen where \[were\].there the.people of.Israel not it.was hail

*JPS 1917:* Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

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[Joshua 15:51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.51/)

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וְגֹ֥שֶׁן וְחֹלֹ֖ן וְגִלֹ֑ה עָרִ֥ים אַֽחַת־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Goshen and Holon and Giloh cities one.plus ten and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

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