Strong's #1470: Gowzan (pronounced go-zawn')

probably from 1468; a quarry (as a place of cutting stones); Gozan, a province of Assyria:--Gozan.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gôzân

Gozan = "a cutting off"

1) the Mesopotamian city on or near the middle of the Euphrates where exiled Israelites were settled

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: probably from H1468

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

2 Kings 17:6: "into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes."
2 Kings 18:11: "them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:"
2 Kings 19:12: "my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden"
1 Chronicles 5:26: "and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day."
Isaiah 37:12: "my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden"