Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Zoan?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Tanis.

First appears in Numbers 13:22 · 4 books · 5 chapters

Overview

(Old Egypt. Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22).

Zoan is represented in the local geography layer as Tanis. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Numbers 13:22 and is mentioned across 4 books, with 7 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Egypt

About 109 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Bethlehem

About 326 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jerusalem

About 331 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Judea

About 331 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Mount Sinai

About 338 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Zoan today

Travel to Zoan, the modern-day Tanis.

Zoan is commonly identified with Tanis, 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.

Zoan 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

Tanis

30.977°N · 31.880°E

Key passages

Appears in

Isaiah

2 chapters · 3 verse mentions

Psalms

1 chapter · 2 verse mentions

Numbers

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Ezekiel

1 chapter · 1 verse mention