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# גֹּשֶׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1657

**Goshen** — used 15 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

Goshen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1657/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּ֫שֶׁן: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1657/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (on etym. cf. Di Gn 45:10)— district in Egypt E. of lower Nile, v. Eb GS 500 ff.; Naville Goshen, 1887, who reads hierogl. Kesem, but cf. Groff JAs xiv. 527 (𝔊 Γεσεμ (Ἀραβιας))—אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן Gn 45:10 (JE) 46:34; 47:1, 4, 6, 27; 50:8; Ex 8:18; 9:26 (all J); אַ֫רְצָה גֹּשֶׁן Gn 46:28 (J); גֹּ֑שְׁנָה v 28, 29 (both J), in both 𝔊 καθʼ Ἡρώων πόλιν cf. Di (P has land רעמסס 47:11 etc., cf. Di Gn 45:10). ארץ הַגֹּשֶׁן Jos 11:16 (D), אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן Jos 10:41 (D), גֹּשֶׁן Jos 15:51 (P) (𝔊 in all Γοσομ) a city named with חֹלֹן & גִּלֹה cf. Di.—not clearly located, but on southern border of Judah.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Goshen (11); Goshen (2); to (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 9:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.26/#tree)

רַ֚ק בְּאֶ֣רֶץ גֹּ֔שֶׁן אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לֹ֥א הָיָ֖ה בָּרָֽד׃

*Word for word:* only in the.land of.Goshen where \[were\].there the.people of.Israel not it.was hail

*JPS 1917:* Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

[Joshua 15:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.51/#tree)

וְגֹ֥שֶׁן וְחֹלֹ֖ן וְגִלֹ֑ה עָרִ֥ים אַֽחַת־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Goshen and Holon and Giloh cities one.plus ten and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1657.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1657/): 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).