Pi-beseth

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pi-beseth
     (Ezek. 30:17), supposed to mean. "a cat," or a deity in the form
     of a cat, worshipped by the Egyptians. It was called by the
     Greeks Bubastis. The hieroglyphic name is "Pe-bast", i.e., the
     house of Bast, the Artemis of the Egyptians. The town of Bubasts
     was situated on the Pelusian branch, i.e., the easternmost


     branch, of the Delta. It was the seat of one of the chief annual
     festivals of the Egyptians. Its ruins bear the modern name of
     Tel-Basta.
     

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

  Pi-beseth, abode of the goddess Bahest or Bast