Lexicon Golan: a city and a region East of the Jordan in Manasseh Original Word: גּוֹלָןPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Golan Phonetic Spelling: (go-lawn') Short Definition: Golan NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona city and a region E. of the Jordan in Manasseh NASB TranslationGolan (4).
Brown-Driver-Briggs גּוֺלָן proper name, of a location (? connected with √ גול Arabic  go about, around;  circuit; compare Phoenician גול proper name insul.; also גָּלִיל, גְּלִילָה) city of Manasseh in Bashan, named as a city of refuge Deuteronomy 4:43 compare Joshua 20:9; Joshua 21:27 both Qr (Kt גלון); given to sons of Gershom son of Levi according to 1 Chronicles 6:56; Euseb. knew it as a very large village Γαυλὼν ἢ Γωλάν Lag Onom. 242, 2nd ed. 253; district of same name ib., Josephus Ant. viii. 2, 3 etc Gaulanitis, modern Jaulân Rob BR ii, 432 Bd Pal 270 Schumacher ZPV 1886 = Jaulân 1888, according to most, name applied first to city, thence to district, but perhaps otherwise if above derivatives be correct. גּון (meaning dubious, compare perhaps Aramaic גַּוֵּן tinge,  ,  ; Arabic  reddish black, compare HomSäugethiere 64).
Strong's Golan From gowlah; captive; Golan, a place east of the Jordan -- Golan. see HEBREW gowlah |
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