Bible Location
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Pelusium is the Egyptian frontier city better known in Ezekiel as Sin. It is important because it stood at a strategic gateway into Egypt and appears in prophetic judgment language. First appears in Ezek 30:15.1
Coordinates
28.84, 33.42
First appears
Ezek 30:15
AI summary: Pelusium matters because frontier cities often concentrate both military and symbolic weight. In Ezekiel's oracle against Egypt, Sin represents one of the fortified points that will not escape judgment. The cross references present Pelusium as Egypt's north-eastern gateway under prophetic warning.1
Latitude
28.84
Longitude
33.42
Bible references
2
“Sin against the Holy Ghost” (q.v.), or a “sin unto death” (Matt. 12:31, 32; 1 John 5:16), which amounts to a wilful rejection of grace.
Sin, a city in Egypt, called by the Greeks Pelusium, which means, as does also the Hebrew name, “clayey” or “muddy,” so called from the abundance of clay found there. It is called by Ezekel (Ezek. 30:15) “the strength of Egypt, “thus denoting its importance as a fortified city. It has been identified with the modern Tineh, “a miry place,” where its ruins are to be found. Of its boasted magnificence only four red granite columns remain, and some few fragments of others. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.