Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Old Testament, a city provided with stores of provisions for troops.
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Examples
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Tanis was rebuilt as a new capital and called Pi-Ramses, the biblical store-city of Ramses (Exodus 1: 11).
e. The New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period (18th-24th Dynasties) 2001
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Therefore this discovery is simply that of a 'store-city,' built partly by Rameses II.; but it further appears from several short inscriptions, that the name of the city was Pa Tum, or Pithom; and thus there is no reasonable doubt that one of the two cities built by the Israelites has been laid bare, and answers completely to the description given of it. "
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877
peekaboo78 commented on the word store-city
A store where you can buy stores.
January 22, 2026