Bible Location
Meaning: passage; revolution · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Golan was a city in Bashan east of the Sea of Galilee and one of the appointed cities of refuge. It is important because it combined eastern settlement with legal protection and later gave its name to the wider district of Gaulanitis. First appears in Deut 4:43.1
Place meaning
passage; revolution
Coordinates
32.80, 35.94
First appears
Deut 4:43
AI summary: Golan's significance lies in the role it played within Israel's ordered life east of the Jordan. As a city of refuge, it provided asylum and judicial restraint in Bashan, while the Levitical references show it was also tied to priestly service and instruction. Its later influence on the naming of the wider region shows that it mattered beyond a single list entry. The cross references present Golan as a Bashan refuge-city with enduring regional importance.1
Place meaning
passage; revolution
Latitude
32.80
Longitude
35.94
Bible references
4
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. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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.