Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
Goshen
Usage: § Goshen = "drawing near" a region in northern Egypt, east of the lower Nile, where the children of Israel lived from the time of Joseph to the time of Moses
Goshen - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1657 — eleutheria (“liberty”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1657 גּוֹשֶׁן (Goshen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Goshen (go'-shen) n/l. 1. Goshen, the residence of the Israelites in Egypt 2. also a place in Israel It has 14 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include goshen. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Goshen (go'-shen) n/l. 1. Goshen, the residence of the Israelites in Egypt 2. also a place in Israel [probably of Egyptian origin] KJV: Goshen.
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Goshen
Usage: § Goshen = "drawing near" a region in northern Egypt, east of the lower Nile, where the children of Israel lived from the time of Joseph to the time of Moses
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Goshen, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1657.
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
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Goshen (Strong's H1657) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Goshen". Goshen (go'-shen) n/l. 1. Goshen, the residence of the Israelites in Egypt 2. also a place in Israel
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H1657 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1657 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as goshen. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.