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# בָּשָׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1316

**Bashan** — used 60 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bashan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1316/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּשָׁן: n.pr.terr.m. Bashan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1316/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr.m. Dt 3:3 (smooth (& fertile) land) Bashan, first mentioned as kingdom of Og, E. of Jordan, stretching from stream Jabboḳ (thus including northern Gilead) northward to Hermon, between Gennesaret (W) and mts of Hauran (E); cf. Di Nu 21:33 Wetzst Hauran 82; later a type of fertility;—usually c. art. הַבּ׳ Nu 21:33(×2); 32:33; Dt 1:4 + 30 times Dt Jos; 1 K 4:13, 19 2 K 10:33; 1 Ch 5:11, 12, 16, 23; 6:47, 56; Ne 9:22 ψ 68:23; 135:11; 136:20; Je 22:20; 50:19 (‖ הַכַּרְמֶל), Mi 7:14 (‖ id.), Na 1:4) (‖ id.; personif., subj. of אֻמְלַל), Is 33:9 (‖ id.; personif. subj. of נֹעֵר); הַר־בָּשָׁן (i.e. range of Hauran) ψ 68:16(×2) (called הַר־אלהים,—from a sanctuary there?—& הַר־גַּבְנֻנִּים many-peaked mt.); of stately trees אַלּוֹנֵי הַבּ׳ Is 2:13 (still seen on western slope of mts. of Hauran, Wetzst Hauran 88); אַלּוֹנֵי ב׳ Zc 11:2 (fig. of prominent men); אַלּוֹנִים מִבּ׳ Ez 27:6; of bulls אַבִּירֵי ב׳ ψ 22:13 (‖ פָּרִים, fig.); so בְּנֵי־ב׳ Dt 32:14 (+ כָּרִים וְאֵילִים also עַתּוּדִים, cf. בָּקָר & צֹאן v a; vid. בֵּן 1. j. (ν)); appar. more general is מְרִיאֵי ב׳ Ez 39:18 (ref. to אֵילִים כָּרִים וְעַתּוּדִים פָּרִים … כֻּלָּם); once of kine (fem., fig. of luxurious and haughty women of Samaria) Am 4:1 פָּרוֹת הַבּ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bashan (54); of Bashan (6).

## In the verses

[Psalms 22:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.13/#tree)

סְ֭בָבוּנִי פָּרִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים אַבִּירֵ֖י בָשָׁ֣ן כִּתְּרֽוּנִי׃

*Word for word:* they have.surrounded.me bulls many mighty.\[bulls\] of.Bashan they have.surrounded.me

*JPS 1917:* Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

[Psalms 68:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.16/#tree)

הַר־אֱ֭לֹהִים הַר־בָּשָׁ֑ן הַ֥ר גַּ֝בְנֻנִּ֗ים הַר־בָּשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* O.mountain of.God O.mountain of.Bashan O.mountain of.peaks O.mountain of.Bashan

*JPS 1917:* A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1316.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1316/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).