Biblical place
Where was Zoan?
Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Tanis.
First appears in Numbers 13:22 · 4 books · 5 chapters
Overview
(Old Egypt. Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22).
Zoan is represented in the local geography layer as Tanis. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Numbers 13:22 and is mentioned across 4 books, with 7 verse references collected into the glossary index.