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Reference: Tahpanhes, Tehaphnehes, Tahapanes
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Tah'panhes, Tehaph'nehes, Tahap'anes,
a city of Egypt, mentioned in the time of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The name is evidently Egyptian, and closely resembles that of the Egyptian queen Tahpenes. It was evidently a town of lower Egypt, near or on the eastern border. When Johanan and the other captains went into Egypt "they came to Tahpanhes."
The Jews in Jeremiah's time remained here.
It was an important town, being twice mentioned by the latter prophet with Noph or Memphis.
Here stood a house of Pharaoh-hophra before which Jeremiah hid great stones.