What is "pathros"

Pathros is a traditional Anglicization of Hebrew [] (cf. Greek []; []), referring to Upper Egypt, primarily the Thebaid. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Jeremiah 44:1 and 15; Isaiah 11:11; and Ezekiel 29:14, 30:14. It is the homeland of the Pathrusim.

The name is a loan from Egyptian pꜣ tꜣ-rsy "the southern land" (e.g., pBritish Museum EA 10375, line 16; cf. Sahidic Coptic and Bohairic Coptic .) As in Hebrew and Greek, the term was used in Akkadian by the Assyrians as , for example in the Annals of Esarhaddon.