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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #5482 - סְוֵן

Transliteration

Çᵉvênêh

Phonetics

sev-ay-nay', sev-ay'-naw, sev-ane'

Origin

of Egyptian derivation

Parts of Speech

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Syene = “her veiling (?)”

1) a town of Egypt on the frontier of Cush or Ethiopia

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (2)

Ezekiel 2

HCS (0)

HCS (2)

Ezekiel 2

BSB (2)

Ezekiel 2

ESV (2)

Ezekiel 2

WEB (2)

Ezekiel 2

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[סְוֵן, < סְרָן], סְוֵנֵה

proper name, of a location Syene, city on southern border of Egypt, toward Ethiopia, only in phrase (וְעַדגְּֿבוּל כּוּשׁ) ׳מִמִּגְדֹּל ס Ezekiel 29:10; compare Ezekiel 30:6, read probably סְוֵ֫נָה or < סְוָ֫נָה (Coptic Suan), with ה locative (JDMich Sm Co Berthol) = Egyptian Sun, Coptic Suan, modern Aswân; ᵐ5 ἔως Συηνης; read probably סְוָן also Ezekiel 30:16 (for ᵑ0סִין q. v.) ᵐ5 Συηνη. — See further Jos^{BJ iv. 10}, 5 Strabo^{xxxii.817-820,} Brugsch^{Geogr. Inscr. i. 155; Reiseber. aus Aegypt. 247} Bd^{Egypt 4:323f.} Budge^{Nile 284}.

List of Word Forms

סְוֵנֵ֖ה סְוֵנֵ֗ה סונה sə·wê·nêh seveNeh səwênêh