גֹּ֫שֶׁן
go.shen
Goshen
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "Goshen" (H1657G) is a proper name of a geographic location and a person. It appears 12 times in the Bible. As a proper name, it refers to a specific place of origin mentioned several times in the book of Genesis. This place is closely tied to the early history of Israel, serving as the homestead for the Israelites in Egypt. While the exact location of Goshen is not specified in the data provided, its association with the Israelites in Egypt suggests an important context in biblical history. In these biblical accounts, Goshen appears to hold significant cultural and identity ties for the Israelites during their stay in Egypt.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
12 total occurrences across the text
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
Genesis 45:10You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.
Genesis 46:28Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis 46:28Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis 46:29Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis 46:34that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
Genesis 47:1Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47:4They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47:6The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
Genesis 47:27Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
Genesis 50:8All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Exodus 8:22I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.