Hebrew word · H1470
גּוֹזָן
gozan
Gozan
Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
§ Gozan = "a cutting off"
the Mesopotamian city on or near the middle of the Euphrates where exiled Israelites were settled
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
2 Kings · 3
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2 Kings 17:6 גּוֹזָ֖ן Gozan
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
Here: Assyrian Guzana, the modern Tell Halaf. It was a provincial capital on the upper Khabur.
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2 Kings 18:11 גּוֹזָ֖ן Gozan
The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
Here: Assyrian Guzana, modern Tell Halaf, a former Aramean city-state that had become an Assyrian provincial capital. Gozan is the place and the Habor is its river, not the other way round.
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2 Kings 19:12 גּוֹזָ֖ן Gozan
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
Here: Guzana (modern Tell Halaf) on the upper Habor (Khabur) River. It had been an Aramean royal city and later became an Assyrian province. Israel's northern exiles had been resettled in this region (2 Kgs 17:6; 18:11).
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 5:26 גּוֹזָ֔ן Gozan
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.
Here: Assyrian Guzana (Tell Halaf), a provincial capital on the upper Habur.
Isaiah · 1
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Isaiah 37:12 גּוֹזָ֖ן Gozan
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
Here: Assyrian Guzana (modern Tell Halaf), on the upper Habur River in northeast Syria. Judeans knew it as one of the places where exiles from the northern kingdom of Israel were settled (2 Kings 17:6).
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