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Goshen

Name means “approaching; drawing near”Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary: “Goshen, approaching; drawing near”
First named: Joshua 10:41
Region Undetermined
Disputed identification: Its location is disputed; scholars have proposed several different modern sites for it.
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Named in Scripture, but with no story of its own here — kept for the connections graph.

References: Joshua 10:41; Joshua 11:16

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