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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Gozan

 

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Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: No
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Gozan

A region in Central Asia to which the Israelites were carried away captive (2 Kings 17:6; 1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 37:12). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11), the Khabur, a tributary of the Euphrates. The "river of Gozan" (1 Chronicles 5:26) is probably the upper part of the river flowing through the province of Gozan, now Kizzel-Ozan.


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Gozan

fleece; pasture; who nourisheth the body


Naves Topical Index
Gozan

A district of Mesopotamia. Israelites taken in captivity to, by the king of Assyria, after the conquest of Samaria.
1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; 2 Kings 19:12


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Gozan

seems in the Authorized Version of (1 Chronicles 5:26) to be the name of a river, but in (2 Kings 17:6) and 2 Kings 18:11 It is evidently applied not to a river but a country. Gozan was the tract to which the Isr'lites were carried away captive by Pul, Tiglathpileser and Shalmaneser, or possibly Sargon. It is probably identical with the Gauzanitis of Ptolemy, and I may be regarded as represented by the Mygdonia of other writers. It was the tract watered by the Habor, the modern Khabour , the great Mesopotamian affluent of the Euphrates.