Bible Location
Meaning: a bush; enmity · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Syene was Egypt's southern frontier city on the Nile near the border of Cush. It is important because prophets use it with Migdol to express the full length of Egypt. First appears in Isa 49:12.1
Place meaning
a bush; enmity
Coordinates
24.07, 32.90
First appears
Isa 49:12
AI summary: Syene matters as the southern bookend of Egypt's geography. Ezekiel's oracles use the formula from Migdol to Syene to indicate total judgment from one end of the land to the other, while Isaiah also preserves it as a far southern point. The cross references present Syene as Egypt's southern limit in prophetic geography.1
Place meaning
a bush; enmity
Latitude
24.07
Longitude
32.90
Bible references
3
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. 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.
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.