Tahpanhes. An Egyptian fortress on the eastern or Syrian frontier of Lower Egypt (Compare Jer_2:16), where the Pharaoh had his palace. See Jer_43:9. Now Tell Defenneh; where Petrie discovered (in 1886) a ruin called Kasr el Bint Yehudi = the palace of the daughter of Judah, assigned doubtless to the daughters of king Zedekiah. See Jer_43:6, above; and Jer_41:10. See App-87.