Brown-Driver-Briggs חַוְרָן proper name, of a territory (meaning unknown; conjectures are: — black-land (as basaltic region); supported by black, dialect of Yemen, Maltzan ZMG 1874, 230, and tokens of immigration from Yemen into Haurân, Wetzst in De Job 2:598; ZKW 1884, 120; land of caves, Thes Hi-Sm, Porter Dict. Bib., and hollow, GASm Geogr. 552, who compare Hebrew הור hole; but this probably from III. חרר, and Arabic ![](/bdbgif/bdb030107.gif) , hollow, different from ![](/bdbgif/bdb030108.gif) ) — district southeast from Mt. Hermon, extending between Jaulan and Lejah, toward Syrian desert; only גְּבוּל חַוְרָ֑ן Ezekiel 47:16 compare מִבֵּין חַוְשָרן וּמִבֵּין דַּמֶּשֶׂק Ezekiel 47:18; Ezekiel 47:18; = Assyrian –aurani Dl Pa 294; ᵐ5 Αυρανιτις, and so Jos Ant. xiv. 10, 1 etc., Arabic ![](/bdbgif/bdb030109.gif) . On this district see Wetzst Hauran, (1860) and in De Job 2. 597ff. Bd Pal 195 ff. Schumacher Across the Jordan, 1889; ZPV xii. 1889, 225 ff. (with map) GASm Geogr. 552 f. 609 ff. Forms and Transliterations חַוְרָ֣ן חַוְרָֽן׃ חורן חורן׃ chavRan ḥaw·rān ḥawrān Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |
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