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Pathros

פַּתְרוֹס · pat.ros · H6624“Pathrusim, mouthful of dough; persuasion of ruin” Hitchcock's 18695 mentions in 3 books, most in Jeremiah (2)

Where it is

HanesHanesMemphisMemphisNileNileEgyptEgyptBaal-zephonBaal-zephonMarahMarahPathrosabout 642 km across

28.32° N, 30.69° E · region

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Mentioned most in

Jeremiah · 2Ezekiel · 2Isaiah · 1
Counted from 5 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

About this place

Pathros was a region located in Upper Egypt, the southern part of the country. It is mentioned several times in the Old Testament, particularly in the context of Judean refugees who fled to Egypt after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC (Jer. 44:1, 15). The name "Pathros" is derived from the Egyptian word "p-t-rsy," meaning "the southern land." In Isaiah 11:11, Pathros is listed among the places from which God will recover the remnant of His people. Ezekiel prophesied that God would bring judgment upon Egypt and make the land of Pathros a desolation (Ezek. 29:14; 30:14). The biblical references to Pathros indicate that it was a distinct region within Egypt and that it had a significant Judean population during the exilic and post-exilic periods.

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Every mention

5 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)

Isaiah 1 mention

Isaiah 11:11It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from…

Jeremiah 2 mentions

Jeremiah 44:1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,Jeremiah 44:15Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros…

Ezekiel 2 mentions

Ezekiel 29:14I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. There they will be a lowly kingdom.Ezekiel 30:14I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.

What the dictionary says

The name generally given to Upper Egypt (the Thebaid of the Greeks), as distinguished from Matsor, or Lower Egypt (Isa. 11:11; Jer. 44:1, 15; Ezek. 30:14)…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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