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Places of the Bible

Syene

City · now Aswan

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Syene, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

  • Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 2 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

Isaiah
49:12
Ezekiel
29:10, 30:6

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.