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גֹּשֶׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1657

Goshen — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Goshen tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּ֫שֶׁן: n.pr.loc. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.loc. (on etym. cf. Di Gn 45:10)— district in Egypt E. of lower Nile, v. Eb GS 500 ff.; Naville Goshen, 1887, who reads hierogl. Kesem, but cf. Groff JAs xiv. 527 (𝔊 Γεσεμ (Ἀραβιας))—אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן Gn 45:10 (JE) 46:34; 47:1, 4, 6, 27; 50:8; Ex 8:18; 9:26 (all J); אַ֫רְצָה גֹּשֶׁן Gn 46:28 (J); גֹּ֑שְׁנָה v 28, 29 (both J), in both 𝔊 καθʼ Ἡρώων πόλιν cf. Di (P has land רעמסס 47:11 etc., cf. Di Gn 45:10). ארץ הַגֹּשֶׁן Jos 11:16 (D), אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן Jos 10:41 (D), גֹּשֶׁן Jos 15:51 (P) (𝔊 in all Γοσομ) a city named with חֹלֹן & גִּלֹה cf. Di.—not clearly located, but on southern border of Judah.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Goshen (11); Goshen (2); to (2).

In the verses

Exodus 9:26 · tree →

רַ֚ק בְּאֶ֣רֶץ גֹּ֔שֶׁן אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לֹ֥א הָיָ֖ה בָּרָֽד׃

Word for word: only in the.land of.Goshen where [were].there the.people of.Israel not it.was hail

JPS 1917: Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

Joshua 15:51 · tree →

וְגֹ֥שֶׁן וְחֹלֹ֖ן וְגִלֹ֑ה עָרִ֥ים אַֽחַת־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

Word for word: and Goshen and Holon and Giloh cities one.plus ten and villages their

JPS 1917: and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

On Mova

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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