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Where is Pathros in the Bible?

Pathros was a region located in Upper Egypt, referring to the southern part of ancient Egypt along the Nile River. The Bible mentions Pathros primarily in the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah as a destination where some Jewish people settled following the Babylonian exile of Judah in 586 BCE. According to Jeremiah 44, a community of Judeans fled to Pathros and other Egyptian cities after the fall of Jerusalem, where they continued practicing their faith despite being far from their homeland. The region appears in prophetic passages that address both Egypt's fate and the scattered Jewish diaspora, emphasizing how God's people were dispersed throughout the ancient Near East during this tumultuous period.