1. Tahpanhes (Egyptian city) — The proper noun תַּחְפַּנְחֵס / תְּהַפְנְחֵס referring to Tahpanhes (Daphne), an Egyptian border city in the eastern Nile Delta where Judean refugees fled after the fall of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:16, 43:7-9, 44:1, 46:14; Ezekiel 30:18). All three clusters represent the same place name in different syntactic and orthographic forms: S144978 (5x, with prepositions 'in Tahpanhes'), S144981 (2x, conjunctive 'and-Tahpanhes' with ketiv/qere variation), and S144980 (1x, variant spelling Tehaphnehes). Multilingual evidence is consistent: Spanish Tajpanjés/Tajpanjes/Tahpanhes, Arabic تحفنحيس uniformly, Hindi तखपनहेस/तहपन्हेस, Korean 다후네스/답팁헤스 (transliteration variants), Swahili Tahpanesi/Tehafnehesi. The orthographic variations are scribal, not semantic. 8×
AR["[وَ-تَحْفَنْحِيسَ]","تَحْفَنْحِيسَ","فِي-تَحْفَنْحِيسَ","وَ-تَحْفَنْحِيسَ","وَفِي-تَحْفَنْحِيسَ"]·ben["আর-তহপনহেসে","এবং-তহপনহেসে","এবং-তহপন্হেসে","এবং-তহপন্হেসের","তহপন্হেসে"]·DE["[(ותחפנחס)]","[[ותחפנס]]","[בתחפנחס]","[ובתחפנחס]","[תחפנחס]"]·EN["(and-Tachpanches)","Tachpancheis","[and-Tachpanhes]","and-in-Tachpancheis","and-in-Tehaphnehes","in-Tachpancheis"]·FR["Tachpanès","et-Tahpanès","et-dans-Tachpanès","à-Tachpanès"]·heb["[ותחפנס]","ב-תחפנחס","ו-ב-תחפנחס","ו-תחפנחס","תחפנחס"]·HI["[केतीब]","और-तखपन्हेस-के","और-में-तखपनहेस","और-में-तहपन्हेस","तखपनहेस","में-तखपनहेस"]·ID["Dan-di-Tahpanhes","Tahpanhes","[dan-Tahpanhes]","dan-Tahpanhes","dan-di-Tahpanhes","di-Tahpanhes"]·IT["Tanis","[ובתחפנחס]","e-Tanis"]·jav["Lan-ing-Tahpanhès","Takpanès","[K]","ing-Takpanès","lan-Tahpanhès","lan-ing-Tahpanhès","lan-ing-Takpanès"]·KO["(그리고-답팁헤스-의)","[그리고-답팁헤스]","그리고-다후네스에","그리고-다후네스에서","그리고-듔하파네스에서","다후네스","다후네스에서"]·PT["E-em-Techaphnechés","Tachpanches","[Q]","e-Tachpanches","e-em-Tachpanches","em-Tachpanches"]·RU["(и-Тахпанхеса)","[и-Тахпанхеса]","Тахпанхеса","в-Тахпанхесе","и-в-Тахпанхесе"]·ES["Tajpanjés","Y-en-Tahpanhes","[y-Tajpanjes]","en-Tajpanjés","y-Tajpanjes","y-en-Tajpanjés"]·SW["Na-katika-Tehafnehesi","Tahpanesi","[ketiv]","na-Tahpanesi","na-Tahpanhesi"]·TR["Tahpanhes'e","Tahpanhes'te","[ketiv]","ve-Tahpanhes'in","ve-Tahpanhes'te","ve-de-Tahpanhes","ve-de-Tahpanhes'te"]·urd["اور-بَ-تحفنحیس","اور-تحفنحیس-کے","اور-تخفنحیس-میں","تحفنحیس","تحفنحیس-میں"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† תַּחְפַּנְחֵס n.pr.loc. Egyptian city Je 43:7, 8, 9; 44:1; 46:14, so Je 2:16 Qr (Kt תחפנס); = תְּחַפְנְחֵס Ez 30:18; Ταφνα(ι)ς [Ταφναι]; identif. with Gk. Daphnae, mod. Tel Defenneh, c. 18 m. ESE. from Tanis, c. 9 m. W. of El-Ḳanṭara, BädEgypt, 5th ed. (1902), 169 Petrie Defenneh (Tanis II), 1888.