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Strong's #2609 - חָנֵס

Transliteration

Chânêç

Phonetics

khaw-nace'

Origin

of Egyptian derivation

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Hanes = "grace has fled"
1. a place in Egypt, site uncertain but may be either of the following
  1. Tahpanhes, a fortified town on the eastern frontier
  2. a place in lower Egypt, on an island in the Nile south of Memphis

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Isaiah 1

BSB (1)

Isaiah 1

CSB (1)

Isaiah 1

ESV (1)

Isaiah 1

KJV (1)

Isaiah 1

LEB (1)

Isaiah 1

LSB (1)

Isaiah 1

N95 (1)

Isaiah 1

NAS (1)

Isaiah 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Isaiah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

חָנֵס proper name, of a location Isaiah 30:4 in Lower Egypt, on island in Nile, south of Memphis ("" צֹּעַן) = Egyptian Hnnstn [*–néns®], Assyrian –ininši; Herodot^{ii. 137} Ἄνυσις, afterward Heracleopolis magna, now Ahnâs; see Steind^{BAS i. 602}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

חָנֵס once Isaiah 30:4 [Hanes], pr.n. of a city of middle Egypt, situated on an island to the west of the Nile; called by the Greeks Heracleopolis, Ἡρακλέους πόλις, Arabic اهناس, in Egyptian ⲍⲛⲉⲥ, ⲍⲛⲏⲥ, ⲉⲍⲛⲏⲥ, formerly a royal city of Egypt; see Etienne Quatremère, Mémoires sur l’Egypte, t. i. p. 500, 501. Champollion, L’Egypte sous les Pharaons, i. p. 309, and my observations on Isa. loc. cit.

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List of Word Forms

חָנֵ֥ס חנס chaNes ḥā·nês ḥānês