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Tahpanhes

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Tahpanhes , Tahapanes , or Tehaphnehes , ancient city, NE Egypt, on Lake Manzala. The site is now on the Suez Canal. Herodotus states that the city (called by the Greeks Daphnae) had a garrison of Psamtik's troops and, in the early 5th cent. BC, a Persian garrison. It was superseded as a port by Naucratis. A colony of Jews settled there in the 6th cent. BC, and the city is mentioned in the Bible.

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Tahpanhes

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Tahpanhes A city in Egypt to which Jews fled in 586 BCE from the wrath of the Babylonians, taking Jeremiah with them (Jer. 43: 7–8). In Greek the city was called Daphnae.

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