Bible Location
Meaning: fleece; pasture; who nourisheth the body · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Gozan was a Mesopotamian region on or near the Habor river within the Assyrian sphere. It is important because it was one of the places to which Israelites were deported after Assyrian conquest. First appears in 2 Kgs 17:6.1
Place meaning
fleece; pasture; who nourisheth the body
Coordinates
36.84, 40.07
First appears
2 Kgs 17:6
AI summary: Gozan belongs to the geography of exile. Kings and Chronicles use its name to make the Assyrian deportations concrete, showing that Israel's loss of land led to resettlement in identifiable river regions far to the north-east. The same name appears again in royal taunts about other conquered peoples, reinforcing its place within the broad machinery of Assyrian domination. The cross references present Gozan as a place of removal, displacement, and imperial control in the story of Israel's scattering.1
Place meaning
fleece; pasture; who nourisheth the body
Latitude
36.84
Longitude
40.07
Bible references
5
A region in Central Asia to which the Israelites were carried away captive (2 Kings 17:6; 1 Chr. 5:26; 2 Kings 19:12; Isa. 37:12). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11), the Khabur, a tributary of the Euphrates. The “river of Gozan” (1 Chr. 5:26) is probably the upper part of the river flowing through the province of Gozan, now Kizzel-Ozan. 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.