Bible Location
Meaning: abode of the goddess Bahest or Bast · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Pi-beseth was the Egyptian city known to the Greeks as Bubastis and named in Ezekiel's oracle. It is important because it belongs to the prophetic judgment-map of Egypt's notable centers. First appears in Ezek 30:17.1
Place meaning
abode of the goddess Bahest or Bast
Coordinates
30.58, 31.50
First appears
Ezek 30:17
AI summary: Pi-beseth matters because Ezekiel names real Egyptian cities to show that judgment reaches deep into the structures of national confidence and worship. The place belongs to that geography of collapse.1
Place meaning
abode of the goddess Bahest or Bast
Latitude
30.58
Longitude
31.50
Bible references
1
(Ezek. 30:17), supposed to mean. “a cat,” or a deity in the form of a cat, worshipped by the Egyptians. It was called by the Greeks Bubastis. The hieroglyphic name is “Pe-bast”, i.e., the house of Bast, the Artemis of the Egyptians. The town of Bubasts was situated on the Pelusian branch, i.e., the easternmost branch, of the Delta. It was the seat of one of the chief annual festivals of the Egyptians. Its ruins bear the modern name of Tel-Basta. 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| Ezek |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.