(Jeremiah, Ezekiel), appears from the context to be meant of a part of Egypt. Bochart thinks it denotes the Higher Egypt: the Septuagint translate it the country of Pathure; in Pliny we have the Nomos Phaturites in the Thebais; in Ptolemy, Pathyris, probably the metropolis. From the Hebrew appellation Patros comes the gentilious name Pathurism, Moses.