Bible Names

Zoan: meaning of the name

Zoan means “motion.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Zoan in Hebrew and Greek

צֹעַן H6814

Tsôʻan (tso'-an) — Tsoan, a place in Egypt

of Egyptian derivation;

Places named Zoan

Zoan in Scripture

“Zoan” appears in 7 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 13:22

    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

  • Psalms 78:12

    Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

  • Psalms 78:43

    How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

  • Isaiah 19:11

    Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

  • Isaiah 19:13

    The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

  • Isaiah 30:4

    For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

  • Ezekiel 30:14

    And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.