Syene

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Syene
     opening (Ezek. 29:10; 30:6), a town of Egypt, on the borders of
     Ethiopia, now called Assouan, on the right bank of the Nile,
     notable for its quarries of beautiful red granite called
     "syenite." It was the frontier town of Egypt in the south, as
     Migdol was in the north-east.


     

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

  Syene, a bush; enmity