HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1474
גּוֹלָן
go.lan — Golan
§ Golan = "their captivity: their rejoicing" a town of Manasseh in the heights of Bashan east of the Jordan; a city of refuge
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Golan
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Exile, a city of Bashan (Deut. 4:43), one of the three cities of refuge east of Jordan, about 12 miles north-east of the Sea of Galilee (Josh. 20:8). There are no further notices of it in Scripture. It became the head of the province of Gaulanitis, one of the four provinces into which Bashan was divided after the Babylonish captivity, and almost identical with the modern Jaulan, in Western Hauran, about 39 miles in length and 18 in breath.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.