Zoan — Bible place

(Old Egypt. Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22). This great and important city was the capital of the Hyksos, or Shepherd kings, who ruled Egypt for more than 500 years. It was the frontier town of Goshen. Here Pharaoh was holding his court at the time of his various interviews with Moses and Aaron. “No trace of Zoan exists; Tanis was built over it, and city after city has been built over the ruins of that” (Harper, Bible and Modern Discovery). Extensive mounds of ruins, the wreck of the ancient city, now mark its site (Isa. 19:11, 13; 30:4; Ezek. 30:14). “The whole constitutes one of the grandest and oldest ruins in the world.”

This city was also called “the Field of Zoan” (Ps. 78:12, 43) and “the Town of Rameses” (q.v.), because the oppressor rebuilt and embellished it, probably by the forced labour of the Hebrews, and made it his northern capital.

Recorded scripture occurrences (7)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

Show passage in OET: NUM 13:22

OET-RV NUM 13:22

22 They started in the Negev, and went as far as Hevron where some of Anak’s descendents lived: Ahiman, Sheshay, Talmay. Hevron had been built seven years before Tsoan in Mitsrayim (Egypt).

OET-LV NUM 13:22

22 And_they _went _up in_Negeⱱ and_he _came to Ḩeⱱrōn and_there ʼAḩīman Shēshay and_Talmay those _born _of (the)_ˊĀnāq and_Ḩeⱱrōn seven years it _was _built to_(the)_face _of/in _front _of/before Tsoˊan/(Zoan) Miʦrayim/(Egypt).

Show passage in OET: PSA 78:12

OET-RV PSA 78:12

12 They forgot the marvellous things that he’d done
⇔ in the sight of their ancestors in Mitsrayim (Egypt) in the Tsoan region.

OET-LV PSA 78:12

12 Before ancestors _of_their he _did wonder[s] in_land of _Miʦrayim/(Egypt) the _region _of Tsoˊan/(Zoan).

Show passage in OET: PSA 78:43

OET-RV PSA 78:43

43 when he performed his miracles in Mitsrayim (Egypt)
⇔ ≈ and his wonders in the Tsoan region.

OET-LV PSA 78:43

43 When he _performed in_Miʦrayim/(Egypt) signs _of_his and_wonders _of_his in_the _region _of Tsoˊan/(Zoan).

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