Zoan

{{short description|City of Egypt in the eastern Nile delta, mentioned in the hebrew bible}}

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According to the Hebrew Bible, Zoan ({{langx|hbo|צֹועַן}} Ṣōʿan) was a city of Egypt in the eastern Nile delta. Book of Numbers 13:22 says that it was built seven years after Hebron was built. Psalm 78:12,43 identifies the "field of Zoan" as the location where Moses performed miracles before a biblical Pharaoh to persuade him to release the Israelites from his service.{{cite book |last1=Brugsch |first1=Heinrich Karl |title=A history of Egypt under the pharaohs, derived entirely from the monuments : to which is added a memoir on the Exodus of the Israelites and the Egyptian monuments |year=2015 |orig-date=1879 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1108084734 |page=394}} The city is also mentioned in Book of Isaiah 19:11, 13, Isaiah 30:4 and Book of Ezekiel 30:14.

The Greek Septuagint in all of these verses uses the Greek name Tánis ({{langx|el|{{lang|grc|Τάνις}}}}). Both Tanis and Tso'an are ultimately derived from the Ancient Egyptian name for Tanis, ḏꜥn.t (Bohairic Coptic ϫⲁⲛⲓ; Sahidic Coptic ϫⲁⲁⲛⲉ; Modern Arabic صان Ṣan).{{cite book |title=Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible |last=Simkins |first=Ronald A. |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-90-5356-503-2 |editor-last=Freedman |editor-first=David Noel |page=1423 |chapter=Zoan |editor-last2=Myers |editor-first2=Allen C. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRtUqxkB7wkC&pg=PA1423}}