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City in Egypt to which the ambassadors of Israel were sent when they trusted in Egypt instead of in Jehovah. Isa. 30: 4. It was for long identified with Tahpanhes on the eastern frontier, but is now supposed to be the ancient Heracleopolis Magna, identified with Ahnas el Medeeneh, about seventy miles S.W. of Cairo.