סְוֵנֵה
Syene
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5482 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 29:10 סְוֵנֵ֖ה n Proper therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
- Ezekiel 30:6 סְוֵנֵ֗ה n Proper Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סונה — transliterated Çᵉvênêh — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Syene.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezekiel (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Ezekiel 29:10, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5482 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Syene 2×
- American Standard Version: Seveneh 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Syene 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Syene 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5482 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5482 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5482 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5482 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Syene = "her veiling (?)"
- a town of Egypt on the frontier of Cush or Ethiopia
Word origin
, סְוֵנֵה n.pr.loc. Syene, city on S. border of Egypt, toward Ethiopia, only in phr. (וְעַד־גְּבוּל כּוּשׁ) מִמִּגְדֹּל ס׳ Ez 29:10 cf. 30:6, read prob. סְוֵ֫נָה or סְוָ֫נָה (Copt. Suan), c. ה loc. (JDMich Sm Co Berthol) = Egypt. Sun, Copt. Suan, mod. أَسُوَان, Aswân; 𝔊 ἕως Συηνης; read prob. סְוָן also 30:16 (for MT סִין q.v.) 𝔊 Συηνη.—See further JosBJ iv. 10, 5 Strabo xxxii. 817–820, BrugschGeogr. Inscr. i. 155; Reiseber. aus Aegypt. 247 Bd.Egyptian 4, 324 f. BudgeNile 284.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H5482 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סְוֵנֵ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 29:10 | 1 |
| סְוֵנֵ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 30:6 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Syene). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
properly Seventh a town of Egypt, on the frontier of Cush or Ethiopia, (Ezekiel 29:10; 30:6) represented by the present Aruan or Es-Suan.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a bush; enmity
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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