Pathros

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pathros
     the name generally given to Upper Egypt (the Thebaid of the
     Greeks), as distinguished from Matsor, or Lower Egypt (Isa.
     11:11; Jer. 44:1, 15; Ezek. 30:14), the two forming Mizraim.
     After the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, colonies
     of Jews settled "in the country of Pathros" and other parts of


     Egypt.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Pathros, Pathrusim, mouthful of dough; persuasion of ruin