צֹ֫עַן
tso.an
Zoan
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe word "tso'an" (H6814, Strong's number) has a unique semantic profile. As a proper noun (Person), it refers to a specific individual named Zoan. The language of the text, Hebrew, and its transliteration, "tso'an", convey the original form of the name. In terms of range of usage, the name "Zoan" appears 7 times in the Bible, indicating various references to this individual. The significance of this name is related to its connection to a specific person, suggesting importance or distinctiveness within the biblical narrative. However, without further context or information, the precise nature of this importance remains uncertain.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
7 total occurrences across the text
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78:43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
Isaiah 19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
Isaiah 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
Isaiah 30:4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
Ezekiel 30:14I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
Numbers 13:22They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)