Category:Noph

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Noph - The Hebrew name of an Egyptian city (Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 46:14, Jeremiah 46:19; Ezekiel 30:13, Ezekiel 30:16). In Hosea 9:6 the Hebrew name is Moph, and is translated " Memphis ," which is its Greek and Latin form. It was one of the most ancient and important cities of Egypt, and stood a little to the south of the modern Cairo, on the western bank of the Nile. It was the capital of Lower Egypt. Among the ruins found at this place is a colossal statue of Rameses the Great. (See MEMPHIS.)