place
Zoan
צֹ֫עַן
Zoan was an ancient Egyptian city where God performed miracles through Moses; it is probably to be identified with Tanis .
- verses
- 7
- first named
- Numbers 13:22
- last named
- Ezekiel 30:14
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 30.98°N · 31.88°E
Tanis (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Zoan in the text
Zoan was an ancient city of Egypt, mentioned in several contexts in the Bible. It was one of the cities built by the Israelites during their enslavement in Egypt (Num.13.22). The fields of Zoan were the site of God's miracles and mighty acts during the time of Moses (Psa.78.12,43). The princes of Zoan are described as fools, unable to give wise counsel to Pharaoh (Isa.19.11,13). Zoan is also mentioned as a place where the rebellious Israelites sent messengers, seeking help from Egypt rather than trusting in God (Isa.30.4). Ezekiel prophesied that Zoan would be in terror and face God's judgment (Ezk.30.14). Zoan is most likely to be identified with Tanis, an important city in the Nile Delta region of ancient Egypt. It served as a capital during the 21st and 22nd dynasties.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Zoan is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
7 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (1), Psalms (2), Isaiah (3) and Ezekiel (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 4 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Psalms 78Zoan was the setting for wonders performed before the fathers.
- Isaiah 19Zoan’s princes are called fools and cannot explain what the LORD has planned against Egypt.
- Isaiah 30Zoan is where the princes of the rebellious children are found during their Egyptian appeal.
- Ezekiel 30Zoan is set on fire.
Sources