צֹעַןTsôʻan
בְּצַעֲנַנִּים: proper name [of a location]: perhaps proper name [of a location] in Naphtali (Joshua 19:33; Judges 4:11)
Pronunciation: tso'-an · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6814
Meanings
בְּצַעֲנַנִּים: proper name [of a location]: perhaps proper name [of a location] in Naphtali (Joshua 19:33; Judges 4:11)
צֹ֫עַן: proper name [of a location]: Tanis, in Egypt (Numbers 13:22; Isaiah 19:11; Isaiah 19:13; Isaiah 30:4; Ezekiel 30:14)
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 13:22 Going north, they passed through the Negev and arrived at Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai—all descendants of Anak—lived. (The ancient town of Hebron was founded seven years before the Egyptian city of Zoan.)
- Psalms 78:12 the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
- Psalms 78:43 They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan.
- Isaiah 19:11 What fools are the officials of Zoan! Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is stupid and wrong. Will they still boast to Pharaoh of their wisdom? Will they dare brag about all their wise ancestors?
- Isaiah 19:13 The officials of Zoan are fools, and the officials of Memphis are deluded. The leaders of the people have led Egypt astray.
- Isaiah 30:4 For though his power extends to Zoan and his officials have arrived in Hanes,
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).