בָּשָׁן
ba.shan
“Bashan”
Definition
Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan
of uncertain derivation;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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Occurrences
בָּשָׁן appears 47 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:
Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.
He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
This is what the Levite clans of the Gershonites were given:From the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah—two cities, together with their pasturelands.
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