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SYENE

(Heb. sĕwēnēh, sīnīm; Gk. Syḗnē)

A city in Upper Egypt, located on the east bank of the Nile, just N of the First Cataract, at the southern border of ancient Egypt. The name appears twice in the context of oracles against Egypt, expressing the geographical extent of the coming devastation (“from Migdol to Syene”; Ezek. 29:10; 30:6) and once in an oracle of salvation in which the scattered people of Israel are gathered together (Isa. 49:12). Most information concerning Syene comes from the Aramaic Elephantine Papyri, which describe Syene as supplementary to Elephantine (a Jewish military colony and Persian period religious, commercial, and administrative center for Upper Egypt, located on an island opposite Syene) but significant for its role in commerce and its abundant granite quarries (whose stones were called “syenite”). Remains of Syene lie under modern Aswan, which is best known as the site of a dam completed in 1970.

Monica L. W. Brady

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SYENE

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)