H2609

חָנֵס

cha.nesN:N--L

Hanes

§ Hanes = "grace has fled" a place in Egypt, site uncertain but may be either of the following 1a) Tahpanhes, a fortified town on the eastern frontier 1b) a place in lower Egypt, on an island in the Nile south of Memphis

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

חָנֵס proper name, of a location Isa 30:4 in Lower Egypt, on island in Nile, south of Memphis (|| צֹּעַן) = Egyptian Hnnstn [*–néns®], Assyrian –ininši; Herodotii. 137 Ἄνυσις, afterward Heracleopolis magna, now Ahnâs; see SteindBAS i. 602.


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