Strong H1470גּוֹזָן
Gozan
- Transliteration
- gôzân
- Pronunciation
- go-zawn'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Probably from H1468; a quarry (as a place of cutting stones);
{Gozan} a province of Assyria: - Gozan.
{Gozan} a province of Assyria: - Gozan.
Meaning of the name
Gozan = "a cutting off"
Detailed definition
Gozan was a region in Mesopotamia where Israelite captives from the northern kingdom were deported by the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 19:12; 1 Chronicles 5:26; Isaiah 37:12).
In the biblical story
Gozan
A region in Mesopotamia where Israelite captives were deported.
Gozan was a region in Mesopotamia where Israelite captives from the northern kingdom were deported by the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 19:12; 1 Chronicles 5:26; Isaiah 37:12).
In the Bible
Strong H1470 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- gozan5
First verses
- 2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 18:11And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
- 2 Kings 19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
- 1 Chronicles 5:26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath–pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
- Isaiah 37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?