1. Bashan (territory) — A proper territorial name designating the region of Bashan, east of the Jordan River, originally the kingdom of Og. The name refers to a fertile highland plateau encompassing modern-day Golan Heights and Hauran. Used throughout the Pentateuch, historical books, Psalms, and prophets with various prepositional prefixes (in Bashan, from Bashan, and Bashan) and the article, all denoting the same geographical territory. 60×
AR["الباشانِ","البَّشانِ","الْباشانِ","الْبَاشَانَ","الْبَاشَانِ","الْـ-بَاشَانِ","بَاشَانَ"]·ben["-বাশন","-বাশনে","-বাশনের","বাশন","বাশনের"]·DE["der-Baschan"]·EN["the-Bashan"]·FR["le-Basan","le-Bashan"]·heb["ה-בשן"]·HI["-बाशान","-बाशान-का","-बाशान-के","जाईर","बाशन-का","बाशान","बाशान-का","बाशान-की","बाशान।"]·ID["Basan"]·IT["il-Basan"]·jav["Basan"]·KO["그-바산","그-바산-의","그-바산에","그-바산을","그-바산의","그-바산이","그-바샨","바산의"]·PT["a-Bashan","o-Bashan","o-Basã"]·RU["-Башан","-Башана","Башан","Башана","Башане"]·ES["Basán","el-Basán"]·SW["Bashani","ha-Bashani","wa-Bashani","ya-Bashani"]·TR["-Başan'ın","Başan","Başan'dan","Başan'ın","Başan'ın-"]·urd["-باشان","-بسن-کے","باشان","باشان-کا","باشن-کے","بسن","بسن-کا","بسن-کے"]
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בָּשָׁן60 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…