Syene
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall;
and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of
Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD....
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Behold, therefore I [am] against thee, and against thy rivers,
and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste [and]
desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of
Ethiopia....
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-A city in Egypt
Eze 29:10; 30:6...
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properly Seventh a town of Egypt, on the frontier of Cush or
Ethiopia, Eze 29:10, 30:6 represented by the present Aruan or
Es-Suan....
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opening (Ezek. 29:10; 30:6), a town of Egypt, on the borders
of
Ethiopia, now called Assouan, on the right bank of the
Nile,
notable for its quarries of beautiful red granite
called
"syenite." It was the frontier town of Egypt in the
south, as
Migdol was in the north-east....
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Properly Seveneh or Sebennytus in the eastern delta (the
Heracleopolis of Manetho, called from Hercules the "local
god"), meaning "a key or opening", a Syene Egyptian town.
"From Migdol to Syene," i.e. from the fortress near Pelusium
on the N. of Suez to Syene in the far S. toward Ethiopia
(Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:6); not as KJV "from the to...
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