H1470 H1470
Gozan; a city and district in Mesopotamia on the river Habor, where exiled Israelites were deported by Assyria.
A place name identifying a city and region in upper Mesopotamia, corresponding to Assyrian Guzana, located along the river Habor (modern Tell Halaf in northeastern Syria). It appears in two historical contexts: as the destination of Israelite deportees after the fall of Samaria in 722 BC (2 Kgs 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr 5:26), and among the nations whose gods could not save them from Assyria, cited as a warning to Jerusalem (2 Kgs 19:12 = Isa 37:12). The name is uniformly transliterated across all major translations—English, Spanish, French, and German all render it 'Gozan.'
Senses
1. sense 1 — The geographic name Gozan, a Mesopotamian city and district on the river Habor where exiled northern Israelites were resettled by Assyrian conquest. In 2 Kgs 17:6 and 18:11 it names the deportation destination ('the river of Gozan'), while 1 Chr 5:26 lists it among exile locations for the Transjordan tribes. In 2 Kgs 19:12 (= Isa 37:12) the Rabshakeh cites Gozan as a conquered nation whose gods were powerless—a rhetorical threat against Jerusalem. Spanish 'Gozán' with its accent mark reflects the oxytone stress pattern of the Hebrew. 5×
AR["جوزان", "جُوزَانَ"]·ben["গোষণকে", "গোষণের", "গোষনকে", "গোসনে", "গোসনের"]·DE["Gozan", "[גוזן]"]·EN["Gozan", "and-Retseph"]·FR["Gozan", "[גוזן]"]·heb["גוזן"]·HI["गोज़ान", "गोजान"]·ID["Gozan"]·IT["Gozan", "[גוזן]"]·jav["Gozan", "lan-Haran"]·KO["고산", "고산과", "고산의"]·PT["Gozan"]·RU["Гозан"]·ES["Gozan", "Gozán", "a-Gozán"]·SW["Gozani", "wa-Gozani"]·TR["Gozan'i", "Gozan'ı", "Gozan'ın"]·urd["جوزان", "جوزان-کو"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† גּוֹזָן n.pr.loc. (Assyrian Guzana COT 2 K 17:6 DlPa 184) city and district of Mesopotamia, on or near the middle course of the Euphrates, through which the river Chabur (חָבוֹר) flowed; thither some of the exiled Israelites were brought [by Sargon, b.c. 722–21]: גּוֹזָן 2 K 19:12=Is 37:12; חָבוֹר נְהַר גּוֹזָן 2 K 17:6; 18:11; וְחָבוֹר וְהָרָא וּנְהַר גּוֹזָן 1 Ch 5:26 where Chabur is separated entirely from the river of Gozan (v. חבור).