Lexicon Gozan: a city and area in Mesopotamia Original Word: גּוֹזָןPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Gozan Phonetic Spelling: (go-zawn') Short Definition: Gozan NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona city and area in Mesopotamia NASB TranslationGozan (5).
Brown-Driver-Briggs גּוֺזָן proper name, of a location (Assyrian Guzana COT 2 Kings 17:6 Dl Pa 184) city and district of Mesopotamia, on or near the middle course of the Euphrates, through which the river Chabur ( חָבוֺר) flowed; thither some of the exiled Israelites were brought [by Sargon B.C. 722-21]: גּוֺזָן 2 Kings 19:12 = Isaiah 37:12; חָבוֺר נְהַר גּוֺזָן 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; וְחָבוֺר וְהָרָא וּנְ הַר גּוֺזָן 1 Chronicles 5:26 where Chabur is separated entirely from the river of Gozan (see חבור). גוח see גיח. גּוֺי see below גוה. גְּוִיָּה see below גוה.
Strong's Gozan Probably from guwz; a quarry (as a place of cutting stones); Gozan, a province of Assyria -- Gozan. see HEBREW guwz |
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