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Strong's #1474 - גּוֹלָן
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Golan = “their captivity: their rejoicing”
1) a town of Manasseh in the heights of Bashan east of the Jordan; a city of refuge
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go about, around; 
circuit; compare Phoenician גול proper name insul.; also גָּלִיל, גְּלִילָה) city of Manasseh in Bashan, named as a city of refuge Deuteronomy 4:43 compare Joshua 20:9; Joshua 21:27 both Qr (Kt גלון); given to sons of Gershom son of Levi according to 1 Chronicles 6:56; Euseb. knew it as a very large village Γαυλὼν ἢ Γωλάν Lag Onom. 242,2nd ed. 253; district of same name ib., Josephus Ant. viii. 2, 3etc Gaulanitis, modern Jaulân Rob BR ii, 432 Bd Pal 270 Schumacher ZPV:1886 = Jaulân 1888, according to most, name applied first to city, thence to district, but perhaps otherwise if above derivatives be correct. גּון (meaning dubious, compare perhaps Aramaic גַּוֵּן tinge, 
, 
; Arabic 
reddish black, compare Hom Säugethiere 64).
גּוֹלָן (“exile”), [Golan], pr.n of a city of Bashan, afterwards in the tribe of Manasseh; a city of refuge, allotted to the Levites, Deuteronomy 4:43; Joshua 20:8, 21:27 (where there is גָּלוֹן כתיב); 1 Chronicles 6:56. Josephus mentions both the city (calling it Γαυλάνη, Bell. Jud. i. 4, § 4, ) and the adjoining region, Γαυλανῖτις, Archæol. viii. 2, § 3, 13, § 4, etc., which he places by the spring of Jordan and the sea of Galilee; elsewhere he comprehends it under the name of Batanea [Bashan]. This region is now called Jaulân.
