hebrew #2362 - חַוְרָן Chavran (a district Southeast of Mount Hermon)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Hauran Apparently from chavar (in the sense of chuwr); cavernous; Chavran, a region East of the Jordan -- Hauran. see HEBREW chavar see HEBREW chuwr Englishman's Concordance Hauran=“caverns” 1) a province of Palestine east of the Sea of Galilee; exact region uncertain but probably on the borders of the desert in the tetrarchy of Philip Part of Speech: noun proper locative A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: apparently from H2357 (in the sense of H2352) Brown-Driver-Briggsחַוְרָןproper name, of a territory (meaning unknown; conjectures are: — black-land (as basaltic region); supported by  black, dialect of Yemen, MaltzanZMG 1874, 230, and tokens of immigration from Yemen into Haurân, Wetzst in DeJob 2:598; ZKW 1884, 120; land of caves, Thes Hi-Sm, PorterDict. Bib., andhollow, GASmGeogr. 552, who compare Hebrew הורhole; but this probably from III. חרר, and Arabic  , hollow, different from  ) — district southeast from Mt. Hermon, extending between Jaulan and Lejah, toward Syrian desert; only גְּבוּל חַוְרָ֑ןEzekiel 47:16 compare מִבֵּין חַוְשָרןוּמִבֵּין דַּמֶּשֶׂקEzekiel 47:18; Ezekiel 47:18;=Assyrian –aurani DlPa 294; ᵐ5Αυρανιτις, and so JosAnt. xiv. 10, 1 etc., Arabic  . On this district see WetzstHauran, (1860) and in DeJob 2. 597ff. BdPal 195 ff. SchumacherAcross the Jordan, 1889; ZPV xii. 1889, 225 ff. (with map) GASmGeogr. 552 f. 609 ff. Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 2362. חַוְרָן (Chavran) — 2 OccurrencesEzekiel 47:16 Ezekiel 47:18 |