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בָּשָׁן₆₀ proper name, masculine [of a territory] ^{Deut 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 Num 21:33 Wetzst^{Hauran 82}; later a type of fertility; — usually with article ׳ הַבּ Num 21:33 (twice in verse); Num 32:33 ; Deut 1:4 + 30 t. Deuteronomy, Joshua; 1Kgs 4:13; 1Kgs 4:19; 2Kgs 10:33; 1Chr 5:11; 1Chr 5:12; 1Chr 5:16; 1Chr 5:23; 1Chr 6:47; 1Chr 6:56; Neh 9:22; Ps 68:23; Ps 135:11; Ps 136:20; Jer 22:20; Jer 50:19 (|| הַכַּרְמֶל), Mic 7:14 (|| id.), Nah 1:4 (|| id.; personified, subject of אֻמְלַל ), Isa 33:9 (|| id.; personified subject of נֹעֵר); הַרבָּֿשָׁן (i.e. range of Hauran) Ps 68:16 (twice in verse) (called הַראֿלהים, — from a sanctuary there? — & הַרגַּֿבְנֻנִּים many-peaked mountain); of stately trees ׳ אַלּוֺנֵי הַבּ Isa 2:13 (still seen on western slope of mountains of Hauran, Wetzst^{Hauran 88} ); ׳ אַלּוֺנֵי ב Zech 11:2 (figurative of prominent men); ׳ אַלּוֺנִים מִבּ Ezek 27:6 of bulls ׳ אַבִּידֵי ב Ps 22:13 (|| פָּרִים figurative); so ׳ בְּנֵיבֿ Deut 32:14 (+ כָּרִים וְאֵילִים also עַתּוּדִים, compare בָּקָר & צאֹן v^a; see בֵּן