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title: חַוְרָן — Hauran · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַוְרָן (2362), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Hauran. BDB 1906: n.pr.terr. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַוְרָן

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«חַוְרָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hauran** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2362 · **BDB:** חַוְרָן

### Glosses

Hauran (1); of.Hauran (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hauran [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2362/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2362/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. (meaning unknown; conjectures are:—black-land (as basaltic region), supported by حَوْر black, dial. of Yemen, Maltzan ZMG 1874, 230, and tokens of immigration from Yemen into Ḥaurân, Wetzst in De Job 2, 598; ZKW 1884, 120; land of caves, Thes Hi-Sm, Porter Dict. Bib., and hollow, GASmGeogr. 552, who comp. Heb. חור hole; but this prob. from iii. חרר, and Arabic خَوْر, hollow, diff. from حَوْرَان )—district SE. from Mt. Hermon, extending between Jaulan and Lejah, toward Syriac desert; only גְּבוּל חַוְרָ֑ן Ez 47:16 cf. מִבֵּין חַוְרָ֥ן וּמִבֵּין דַּמֶּשֶׂק v 18; = Assyrian Ḫaurani DlPa 294; 𝔊 Αυρανιτις, and so JosAnt. xv. 10, 1 etc., Arabic حَوْرَان. On this district v. Wetzst Hauran, (1860) and in De Job 2, 597 ff. BdPal 195 ff. SchumacherAcross the Jordan, 1889; ZPV xii. 1889, 225 ff. (with map) GASmGeogr. 552 f. 609 ff.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַוְרָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2362/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 47:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.16/)

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חֲמָ֤ת ׀ בֵּר֙וֹתָה֙ סִבְרַ֔יִם אֲשֶׁר֙ בֵּין־גְּב֣וּל דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וּבֵ֖ין גְּב֣וּל חֲמָ֑ת חָצֵר֙ הַתִּיכ֔וֹן חָצֵר֙ הַתִּיכ֔וֹן אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֶל־גְּב֥וּל חַוְרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* Hamath Berothah Sibraim which \[is\].between the.territory of.Damascus and between the.territory of.Hamath Hazer-hattikon which \[is\].to the.border of.Hauran

*JPS 1917:* Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

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[Ezekiel 47:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.18/)

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וּפְאַ֣ת קָדִ֡ים מִבֵּ֣ין חַוְרָ֣ן וּמִבֵּין־דַּמֶּשֶׂק֩ וּמִבֵּ֨ין הַגִּלְעָ֜ד וּמִבֵּ֨ין אֶ֤רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן מִגְּב֛וּל עַל־הַיָּ֥ם הַקַּדְמוֹנִ֖י תָּמֹ֑דּוּ וְאֵ֖ת פְּאַ֥ת קָדִֽימָה׃

*Word for word:* and \[will.be.the\].side of.\[the\].east from between Hauran and from between Damascus and from between (the) Gilead and from between the.land of.Israel the Jordan from.\[the\] border to the sea (the) eastern you.will.measure and (et) \[the\].side eastward

*JPS 1917:* And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, by the Jordan, from the border unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side.

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