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גֹּשֶׁן

Gôshen · H1657 · Hebrew · proper noun · 15 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Meanings

  1. Goshen

    Region; located in eastern Egyptian delta; where Israelites lived from the time they settled in the country until the exodus

    Examples

    Genesis 45:10 “For you shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.

    Genesis 46:28 Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to guide him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

    Genesis 46:29 And Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared to him, Joseph threw himself on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.

  2. land of Goshen

    Region; located on southern border of Israelite territory; conquered by Joshua

    Examples

    Joshua 10:41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea even as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen even as far as Gibeon.

    Joshua 11:16 So Joshua took all that land: the hill country and all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowland

  3. Goshen

    Town; located in the hill country; territory of Judah

    Examples

    Joshua 15:51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

11 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of Locations003001010
Goshen names the fertile region of Egypt where Joseph settled his family, near enough for Joseph to remain close to them.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1657. Goshen גּ֫שֶׁן proper name, of a location (on etymology compare Di Gen 45:10) — 1…
H1657. Goshen
גּ֫שֶׁן proper name, of a location (on etymology compare Di Gen 45:10) —
1 district in Egypt east of lower Nile, see EbGS 500 ff.; NavilleGoshen, 1887, who reads hieroglyphics Kesem, but compare GroffJAs xiv. 527 (ᵐ5 Γεσεμ (Ἀραβιας)) — גּשֶׁן אֶרֶץ Gen 45:10 (JE) Gen 46:34; Gen 47:1, Gen 47:4, Gen 47:6, Gen 47:27; Gen 50:8; Exo 8:18; Exo 9:26 (all J); גּשֶׁן אַ֫רְצָה Gen 46:28 (J), גּ֑שְׁנָה Gen 46:28; Gen 46:29 (both J), in both ᵐ5 καθ’ Ἡρώων πόλιν compare Di. (P has land רעמסס Gen 47:11 etc., compare Di Gen 45:10.
2 הַגּשֶׁן ארץ Jos 11:16 (D), גּשֶׁן אֶרֶץ Jos 10:41 (D), גּשֶׁן Jos 15:51 (P) (ᵐ5 in all Γοσομ) a city named with חֹלֹן & גִּלֹה compare Di. — not clearly located, but on southern border of Judah.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of Locations14 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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