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Bashanבשנ

baw-shawn' · Patriarchs/Conquest

In the Bible

A biblical toponym — Bashan — first attested in Deut 32:14 (46 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible).

Deut 32:14 · first occurrence of 46

חֶמְאַ֨ת בָּקָ֜ר וַחֲלֵ֣ב צֹ֗אן        עִם־חֵ֨לֶב כָּרִ֜ים וְאֵילִ֤ים בְּנֵֽי־בָשָׁן֙ וְעַתּוּדִ֔ים        עִם־חֵ֖לֶב כִּלְי֣וֹת חִטָּ֑ה וְדַם־עֵנָ֖ב תִּשְׁתֶּה־חָֽמֶר׃        

<span class="poetry indentAll">Curd of kine and milk of flocks;</span><br><span class="poetry indentAllDouble">With the best<sup class="footnote-marker">e</sup><i class="footnote"><b>best </b>Lit. “fat.”</i> of lambs,</span><br><span class="poetry indentAllDouble">And rams of Bashan, and he-goats;</span><br><span class="poetry indentAll">With the very finest<sup class="footnote-marker">f</sup><i class="footnote"><b>very finest </b>Lit. “kidney fat of.”</i> wheat—</span><br><span class="poetry indentAllDouble">And foaming grape-blood was your drink.</span>

Bashan appears 46× in the Hebrew Bible — first occurrences:

Facts

Typeplace (toponym)
Biblical periodPatriarchs/Conquest
Gematria352
Letters3 consonants

Gematria & sigil

The consonantal gematria of Bashan (בשנ) and its sigil traced on the Lo Shu (Saturn 3×3) by the Aiq-Bekar digital-root method: each letter's value reduces to 1–9, those cells are joined in order — the trace is the sigil.

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LetterValueAiq Bekar
ב22
ש3003
ן505
Total3521
Mispar Katan (digit-sum): 1

Stellar letters

The 3-consonant name needs its 1 distinct simple-letter to be occupied in the sky. The 7 classical bodies open a sign → its Hebrew simple letter; this name reads only when the planets sit in exactly these signs.

נ
Scorpio · Nun

Readable on these rare conjunctions

Bashan appears in the stellar reading on 4 of the 12 dated rare conjunctions (proofs.json). Open any date in the Reader to verify it on that sky.

DatePrecessional eraOccupied letters |O|
21 Oct 6352 BCECancer3
5 Nov 4018 BCEGemini1
9 Nov 958 BCEAries2
12 Jan 1994Pisces3