Bashan
בָּשָׁןStrong’s H1316bashan (ba-shan)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bashan is the Hebrew word usually translated “bashan” and “from bashan”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.”
Meaning
- § Bashan = "fruitful"
How it's translated
- bashan 37
- in bashan 15
- and bashan 4
- from bashan 3
- and in bashan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 13
- Joshua 13
- 1 Chronicles 6
- Psalms 5
- Numbers 2
- 1 Kings 2
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:33And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
- Numbers 32:33And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
- Deuteronomy 1:4After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
- Deuteronomy 3:1Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
- Deuteronomy 3:3So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
- Deuteronomy 3:4And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
All 53 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בָּשָׁן bashan · Bashan
§ Bashan = "fruitful" a district east of the Jordan known for its fertility which was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.