[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9F/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ח](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/het/)‎ / חַוְרָן‎

# חַוְרָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2362

**Hauran** — used 2 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

Hauran [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2362/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַוְרָן: n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2362/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. (meaning unknown; conjectures are:—black-land (as basaltic region), supported by حَوْر black, dial. of Yemen, Maltzan ZMG 1874, 230, and tokens of immigration from Yemen into Ḥaurân, Wetzst in De Job 2, 598; ZKW 1884, 120; land of caves, Thes Hi-Sm, Porter Dict. Bib., and hollow, GASmGeogr. 552, who comp. Heb. חור hole; but this prob. from iii. חרר, and Arabic خَوْر, hollow, diff. from حَوْرَان )—district SE. from Mt. Hermon, extending between Jaulan and Lejah, toward Syriac desert; only גְּבוּל חַוְרָ֑ן Ez 47:16 cf. מִבֵּין חַוְרָ֥ן וּמִבֵּין דַּמֶּשֶׂק v 18; = Assyrian Ḫaurani DlPa 294; 𝔊 Αυρανιτις, and so JosAnt. xv. 10, 1 etc., Arabic حَوْرَان. On this district v. Wetzst Hauran, (1860) and in De Job 2, 597 ff. BdPal 195 ff. SchumacherAcross the Jordan, 1889; ZPV xii. 1889, 225 ff. (with map) GASmGeogr. 552 f. 609 ff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hauran (1); of Hauran (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 47:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.16/#tree)

חֲמָ֤ת ׀ בֵּר֙וֹתָה֙ סִבְרַ֔יִם אֲשֶׁר֙ בֵּין־גְּב֣וּל דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וּבֵ֖ין גְּב֣וּל חֲמָ֑ת חָצֵר֙ הַתִּיכ֔וֹן חָצֵר֙ הַתִּיכ֔וֹן אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֶל־גְּב֥וּל חַוְרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* Hamath Berothah Sibraim which \[is\].between the.territory of.Damascus and between the.territory of.Hamath Hazer-hattikon which \[is\].to the.border of.Hauran

*JPS 1917:* Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

[Ezekiel 47:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.18/#tree)

וּפְאַ֣ת קָדִ֡ים מִבֵּ֣ין חַוְרָ֣ן וּמִבֵּין־דַּמֶּשֶׂק֩ וּמִבֵּ֨ין הַגִּלְעָ֜ד וּמִבֵּ֨ין אֶ֤רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן מִגְּב֛וּל עַל־הַיָּ֥ם הַקַּדְמוֹנִ֖י תָּמֹ֑דּוּ וְאֵ֖ת פְּאַ֥ת קָדִֽימָה׃

*Word for word:* and \[will.be.the\].side of.\[the\].east from between Hauran and from between Damascus and from between (the) Gilead and from between the.land of.Israel the Jordan from.\[the\] border to the sea (the) eastern you.will.measure and (et) \[the\].side eastward

*JPS 1917:* And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, by the Jordan, from the border unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2362.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2362/): 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).