Patumus

PATUMUS

PATU´MUS (Πάτουμος, Hdt. 2.159), a town of Arabia, on the borders of Egypt, near which Necho constructed a canal from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf. It is probably the Pithom of Scripture (Exod. 1.11), not far from Bubastis, and near the site of the present Belbey.

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Patūmus

(Πάτουμος). The Egyptian Pa-Thmu; O. T. Pithom. A town in the Egyptian Delta between Bubastis and Succoth, built by the Jews in their captivity (Exod. i. 11; cf. Herod.ii. 158).

Patumus Patumus, an "Arabian" town

• a little way west of the modern Ismailia, canal from the Nile near it: Hdt. 2.158