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Strong's #6814 - צֹעַן
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Zoan = “place of departure”
1) 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
1a) modern ‘San’
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בְּצַעֲנַנִּים, בצענים, perhaps proper name, of a location in Naphtali: ׳אֵלוֺן ב Joshua 19:33; Judges 4:11. compare צענים. בצץ (? compare Arabic 
be 
, i.e. one soft, tender, impossible in body, etc.)
צֹ֫עַן proper name, of a location Τανις: Tanis, in Egypt (Egyptian Da±n§(t) Steind BAS 600, in Assyrian ‚i°inu, Sa°anu Ib id.598 ff. Dl Pa 315); it was built 7 years after Hebron according to Numbers 13:22; Isaiah 19:11,13; Isaiah 30:4; Ezekiel 30:14; Psalm 78:12; Psalm 78:43 modern ‚ân, in northwest part of Delta; see also Eb GS 512ff. Bd Lower.Eg.3 (1895), 228 Petrie Tanis{1885}.
צֹעַן [Zoan], pr.n. Tanis, an ancient city of lower Egypt, situated on the east of the Tanitic branch of the Nile: in Egypt. called ϫⲁⲛⲏ and ϫⲁⲛⲓ (i.e. low region), whence have sprung both the Hebrew and the Greek forms of the name, also the Arab. طن. See my Comment. on Isaiah 19:11.- Numbers 13:22; Isaiah 19:11, 13 Isaiah 19:13, 30:4 Ezekiel 30:14.
