Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Pelusium?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Tell el Farama.

First appears in Ezekiel 30:15 · 1 books · 1 chapters

Overview

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. Modern identification: Tell el Farama.

Pelusium is represented in the local geography layer as Tell el Farama. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Ezekiel 30:15 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 2 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Egypt

About 156 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Bethlehem

About 263 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jerusalem

About 268 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Judea

About 268 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Samaria

About 286 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Pelusium today

Travel to Pelusium, the modern-day Tell el Farama.

Pelusium is commonly identified with Tell el Farama, and the map on this page is meant to orient you to that present-day site before you continue into routing or street-level navigation.

Pelusium is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Archaeological tells, access rules, excavation boundaries, and nearby modern roads can change.

Modern orientation

Tell el Farama

31.043°N · 32.546°E

Key passages

Appears in

Ezekiel

1 chapter · 2 verse mentions