Og
Og or Ogg (which means “gigantic”) is, according to several books of the Torah and the Old Testament, a former king amorrite of Bashân.
With its sons and its army, it would have been crushed by Moïse and its men with the battle of Edrei (undoubtedly the modern city of Dara, in Syria). The researchers are divided on the approximate date of the fall of Og and, therefore, of the conquest of the Pays of Canaan by the Royaume of Israel, but the majority suggest a fork between -1500 and -1200.
In the Bible, Og is mentioned for the first time in the Deutéronome, precisely with the first and third chapters. It reigned on a vast and fertile territory, which extended since the fork from the Yarmouk to the basaltic grounds from Hauran in the east. The kingdom of Bashân would have contained close to “sixty strengthened cities” and of many not strengthened cities, had royal palaces with Ashterot (Astarté) and Edrei, in the area of Argob.
The character of Og comprises also a share of legendary, and passed for the Géant of Amorrites in several Hebrew texts . Certain sources allot a 3000 years to him longevity, and even affirm that it had the privilege to climb on the Arche of Noah during the Déluge.
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