Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H6814
צֹ֫עַן
tso.an · “Zoan”
Used 7 times across 4 books
Definition
§ Zoan = "place of departure"
an ancient city of lower Egypt called Tanis by the Greeks; located on the eastern bank of the Tanitic branch of the Nile; the capital of the Shepherd dynasty, built 7 years after Hebron and existing before Abraham and the dwelling place of the Pharaoh at the time of the exodus
modern 'San'
Where it appears
Numbers1
Psalms2
Isaiah3
Ezekiel1
In the text
Numbers 13:22And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)Psalms 78:12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.Psalms 78:43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:Isaiah 19:11Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?Isaiah 19:13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.Isaiah 30:4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.Ezekiel 30:14And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
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