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title: צֹעַן — Zoan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֹעַן (6814), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Zoan. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Tanis. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צֹעַן

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«צֹעַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zoan** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 6814 · **BDB:** צֹ֫עַן

### Glosses

of.Zoan (4); Zoan (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zoan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6814/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Tanis [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6814/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Τανις: Tanis, in Egypt (Egyptian D̲aʿnĕ(t) SteindBAS 600, in Assyrian Ṣiʾinu, Saʾanu Ibid. 598 ff. DlPa 315); it was built 7 years after Hebron according to Nu 13:22; Is 19:11, 13; 30:4; Ez 30:14 ψ 78:12, 43; mod. Ṣân, in NW. part of Delta; v. also EbGS 512 ff. Bd.Lower Egyptian 3 (1895), 228 PetrieTanis (1885).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צֹעַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6814/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 78:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.12/)

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נֶ֣גֶד אֲ֭בוֹתָם עָ֣שָׂה פֶ֑לֶא בְּאֶ֖רֶץ מִצְרַ֣יִם שְׂדֵה־צֹֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* before ancestors their he.did wonder\[s\] in the.land of.Egypt the.region of.Zoan

*JPS 1917:* Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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[Isaiah 30:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.4/)

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כִּֽי־הָי֥וּ בְצֹ֖עַן שָׂרָ֑יו וּמַלְאָכָ֖יו חָנֵ֥ס יַגִּֽיעוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.have.been in Zoan officials its and messengers its Hanes they.have.reached

*JPS 1917:* For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes.

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