H0932 H0932
Bohan; personal name used to designate a boundary stone
A personal name meaning possibly 'thumb' or 'closing/covering,' preserved in the designation of a boundary marker between Judah and Benjamin: 'the stone of Bohan son of Reuben.' This stone served as a recognizable landmark in territorial descriptions. The name's etymology remains debated.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The 'stone of Bohan son of Reuben' marked the boundary between Judah and Benjamin (Joshua 15:6; 18:17). The designation preserves the name of a Reubenite, though nothing else is known of this individual. Whether Bohan erected the stone or it was named after him for other reasons is unclear. The name may relate to בֹּהֶן (thumb), suggesting physical characteristics or symbolic meaning. Multilingual glosses simply transliterate (Bohan, Boján), treating it as an opaque proper name. The patronymic 'son of Reuben' is unusual in geographical designations, perhaps indicating this Bohan was a notable early settler or boundary commissioner from the tribe of Reuben, or that the stone itself resembled a thumb. 2×
AR["بوهَنَ"]·ben["বোহনের"]·DE["Bohan"]·EN["Bohan"]·FR["Bohan"]·heb["בוהן"]·HI["बोहन"]·ID["Bohan"]·IT["Bohan"]·jav["Bohan"]·KO["보한의"]·PT["Bohan"]·RU["Бохана"]·ES["Boján"]·SW["Bohani"]·TR["Bohanun"]·urd["بوہن-کا"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בֹּ֫הַן n.pr.m. (closing, covering?) אֶבֶן בּ׳ בֶּן־רְאוּבֵן Jos 15:6; 18:17, a mark of division between Judah & Benjamin.