בשן

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• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ba.ˈʃan/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /bɔ.ˈʃɔːn/
• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /baː.ˈʃaːn/
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /bɔː.ˈʃɔːn/, [bɔ.ˈʃɔn]
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /bɔ.ˈʃɔn/, [bu.ˈʃun]
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ba.ˈʃan/
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /bɒ.ˈʃɒn/
• (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ba.ˈʃan/

בָּשָׁן • (bashán) m

1. (biblical) Bashan, the ancient biblical name for the northernmost of the Transjordan
   • Tanach, Deuteronomy 33:22, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וּלְדָ֣ן אָמַ֔ר דָּ֖ן גּ֣וּר אַרְיֵ֑ה יְזַנֵּ֖ק מִן־הַבָּשָֽׁן׃

     u'l'dán 'amár dan gur 'aryé y'zannék min-habashán.

     And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s whelp that leaps forth from Bashan.

     • Tanach, Psalms 68:23, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

       אָמַ֣ר אֲ֭דֹנָי מִבָּשָׁ֣ן אָשִׁ֑יב אָ֝שִׁ֗יב מִֽמְּצֻל֥וֹת יָֽם׃

       'amár 'adonáy mibashán 'ashív mimm'tsulót yam;

       My Sovereign said, “I will retrieve from Bashan, I will retrieve from the depths of the sea;

בָּשָׁן is often preceded by the definite article הַ־, as shown in the first quotation.

• H1316 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible