גּוֹלָןGôwlân
proper name [of a location]: city of Manasseh in Bashan, named as a city of refuge (Deuteronomy 4:43; Joshua 20:9; Joshua 21:27; 1 Chronicles 6:56)
Pronunciation: go-lawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1474
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 4:43 These were the cities: Bezer on the wilderness plateau for the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead for the tribe of Gad; Golan in Bashan for the tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 20:8 On the east side of the Jordan River, across from Jericho, the following cities were designated: Bezer, in the wilderness plain of the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead, in the territory of the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, in the land of the tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 21:27 The descendants of Gershon, another clan within the tribe of Levi, received the following towns with their pasturelands from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone) and Be-eshterah—two towns.
- 1 Chronicles 6:71 The descendants of Gershon received the towns of Golan (in Bashan) and Ashtaroth from the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh, each with its pasturelands.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).