בָּשָׁן

בָּשָׁן₆₀ proper name, of a territory, masculine^{5 Mos 3,3} (smooth (& fertile) land) Bashan, first mentioned as kingdom of Og, east of Jordan, stretching from stream Jabbok (thus including northern Gilead) northward to Hermon, between Gennesaret (west) and mountains of Hauran (east); compare Di 4 Mos 21,33 Wetzst^{Hauran 82}; later a type of fertility; — usually with article ׳הַבּ 4 Mos 21,33 (twice in verse); 4 Mos 32,33; 5 Mos 1,4 + 30 t. Deuteronomy, Joshua; 1 Kong 4,13; 1 Kong 4,19; 2 Kong 10,33; 1 Kron 5,11; 1 Kron 5,12; 1 Kron 5,16; 1 Kron 5,23; 1 Kron 6,47; 1 Kron 6,56; Neh 9,22; Sl 68,23; Sl 135,11; Sl 136,20; Jer 22,20; Jer 50,19 (|| הַכַּרְמֶל), Mik 7,14 (|| id.), Nah 1,4 (|| id.; personified, subject of אֻמְלַל), Es 33,9 (|| id.; personified subject of נֹעֵר); הַרבָּֿשָׁן (i.e. range of Hauran) Sl 68,16 (twice in verse) (called הַראֿלהים, — from a sanctuary there? — & הַרגַּֿבְנֻנִּים many-peaked mountain); of stately trees ׳אַלּוֺנֵי הַבּ Es 2,13 (still seen on western slope of mountains of Hauran, Wetzst^{Hauran 88}); ׳אַלּוֺנֵי ב Zak 11,2 (figurative of prominent men); ׳אַלּוֺנִים מִבּ Ezk 27,6 of bulls ׳אַבִּידֵי ב Sl 22,13 (|| פָּרִים figurative); so ׳בְּנֵיבֿ 5 Mos 32,14 (+ כָּרִים וְאֵילִים also עַתּוּדִים, compare בָּקָר & צאֹן v^a; see בֵּן