bashan · Bashan

What it means

bashan (בָּשָׁן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Bashan”.

A region east of the Jordan, the kingdom of Og.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Bashan

  Today: southern Syria and the Golan Heights

  A fertile region east of the Sea of Galilee, reaching to Mount Hermon, now southern Syria and northwest Jordan.

  Israel defeated King Og there (Num 21:33-35). It was known for its cattle (Ps 22:12).

  Numbers 21:33Deuteronomy 3:1Psalms 22:12Amos 4:1

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×16
• Joshua×15
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×6
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×6
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×1

• Numbers 21:33

  Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.

• Numbers 32:33

  Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within their borders, the cities of the land all around.

• Deuteronomy 1:4

  after he had struck Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, in Edrei.

• Deuteronomy 3:1

  Then we turned and went up by the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all his people, for war at Edrei.

• Deuteronomy 3:3

  So YHWH our Elohim gave into our hand also Og king of Bashan and all his people, and we struck him until no survivor was left to him.

• Deuteronomy 3:4

  We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

• Deuteronomy 3:10

  all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the cubit of a man.)

• Deuteronomy 3:13

  The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As for all that Bashan, it is called a land of Rephaim.

• Deuteronomy 3:14

  Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them by his name, Bashan Havvoth-jair, to this day.)

• Deuteronomy 4:43

  Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

• Deuteronomy 4:47

  They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise:

• Deuteronomy 29:7

  And you came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us in battle, and we struck them down.

• Deuteronomy 32:14

  curds of cattle and milk of the flock, with the fat of lambs and rams, sons of Bashan, and male goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and the blood of the grape you drank, foaming wine.

• Deuteronomy 33:22

  And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub; he leaps from Bashan.”

• Joshua 9:10

  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorite who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth.

• Joshua 12:4

  and the territory of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,

• Joshua 12:5

  and ruled over Mount Hermon and over Salecah and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

• Joshua 13:11

  and Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;

• Joshua 13:12

  all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); Moses struck them and dispossessed them.

• Joshua 13:30

  And their territory was from Mahanaim: all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

• Joshua 13:31

  and half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.

• Joshua 17:1

  And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, he had Gilead and Bashan.

• Joshua 17:5

  And ten allotments fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan,

• Joshua 20:8

  And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 21:6

  And the sons of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

• Joshua 21:27

  And to the sons of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Be-eshterah with its pasturelands —two cities.

• Joshua 22:7

  Now to the half tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to its other half Joshua gave land with their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. And also, when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead; his were Havvoth-jair of Jair son of Manasseh, which is in Gilead; his was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and bars of bronze;

• 1 Kings 4:19

  Geber son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite and of Og king of Bashan; and there was one prefect who was in the land.

• 2 Kings 10:33

  from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the wadi Arnon, both Gilead and Bashan.

• 1 Chronicles 5:11

  And the sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

• 1 Chronicles 5:12

  Joel the head, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat, in Bashan.

• 1 Chronicles 5:16

  And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.

• 1 Chronicles 5:23

  And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land, from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon; they multiplied.

• 1 Chronicles 6:62

  And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, fell thirteen cities.

• 1 Chronicles 6:71

  To the sons of Gershom, from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands;

• Nehemiah 9:22

  And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and distributed them by regions; and they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

• Psalms 22:12

  Many bulls have surrounded me; strong ones of Bashan have encircled me.

• Psalms 68:15

  A mountain of Elohim is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan.

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