Gozan
go.zan is a proper name used for a place in deportation accounts and in claims about nations destroyed.
The attested uses present go.zan chiefly as a named location associated with Israel's deportation, including the Habor river; it also appears in a taunt listing places or nations said to have been destroyed.
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Deportation location associated with the Habor · dominant
The proper-noun form occurs in destination lists for deported Israelites. In 1 Chronicles 5:26 the APB renders their being brought to “the river Gozan,” while in 2 Kings 17:6 and 2 Kings 18:11 it renders “the Habor river of Gozan.”
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Name in a list of destroyed nations or lands · common
In the rhetorical question of 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12, the proper-noun form stands with Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden. The APB renders Gozan among those associated with nations whose lands or fathers had been destroyed.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as “the river Gozan” or “the Habor river of Gozan” in deportation accounts, but places it in a list of destroyed nations or lands in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12. These are contextual translation renderings rather than definitions.