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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

A king of Egypt with whom Hoshea formed an alliance against Assyria

The discovery of this led to the imprisonment of Hoshea, the siege and capture of Samaria, and the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel (2 Kings 17:4,6⁴And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. (2 Kings 17:4)
⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. (2 Kings 17:6)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

King of Egypt. See EGYPT.

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

5471 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

Cow’

Phonic:

so

Meaning:

of foreign derivation; So, an Egyptian king

KJV Usage:

So

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

concealed: conspicuous

Potts’ Bible Proper Names:

Lifted up:―a king of Egypt, 2 Kings 17:4. {Elatus}