Zoan
צֹ֫עַןStrong’s H6814tsoan (tso-an)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsoan is the Hebrew word usually translated “zoan”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.)”
Meaning
- § Zoan = "place of departure"
How it's translated
- zoan 5
- in zoan 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 2
- Numbers 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
צֹ֫עַן tsoan · Zoan
§ 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'
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.