Bible Location
Meaning: a hole; liberty; whiteness · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Hauran was the fertile region south-east of Gaulanitis in the wider Bashan and Syrian world. It is important because Ezekiel uses it in ideal land-boundary descriptions. First appears in Ezek 47:16.1
AI summary: Hauran matters because it extends the Bible's mapped horizon into the broad and fertile east. In Ezekiel's boundary vision it helps define the restored land in relation to the Syrian-Bashan world. The cross references present Hauran as an eastern regional marker in prophetic geography.1
Cave-land, mentioned only in Ezek. 47:16, 18. It was one of the ancient divisions of Bashan (q.v.), and lay on the south-east of Gaulanitis or the Jaulan, and on the south of Lejah, extending from the Arnon to the Hieromax. It was the most fertile region in Syria, and to this day abounds in the ruins of towns, many of which have stone doors and massive walls. It retains its ancient name. It was known by the Greeks and Romans as “Auranitis.” 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.