פַּתְרוֹסPathrôwç
proper name [of a territory]: = Upper Egypt (Isaiah 11:11; Jeremiah 44:15; Ezekiel 30:14; Jeremiah 44:1; Ezekiel 29:14)
Pronunciation: path-roce' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6624
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Isaiah 11:11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people— those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.
- Jeremiah 44:1 This is the message Jeremiah received concerning the Judeans living in northern Egypt in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in southern Egypt as well:
- Jeremiah 44:15 Then all the women present and all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to idols—a great crowd of all the Judeans living in northern Egypt and southern Egypt—answered Jeremiah,
- Ezekiel 29:14 I will restore the prosperity of Egypt and bring its people back to the land of Pathros in southern Egypt from which they came. But Egypt will remain an unimportant, minor kingdom.
- Ezekiel 30:14 I will destroy southern Egypt, set fire to Zoan, and bring judgment against Thebes.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).