Gozan
גּוֹזָןStrong’s H1470gozan (go-zan)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gozan is the Hebrew word usually translated “gozan”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.”
Meaning
- § Gozan = "a cutting off"
How it's translated
- gozan 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 3
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 18:11And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
- 2 Kings 19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
- 1 Chronicles 5:26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
- Isaiah 37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Hebrew dictionary
גּוֹזָן gozan · Gozan
§ Gozan = "a cutting off" the Mesopotamian city on or near the middle of the Euphrates where exiled Israelites were settled
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.