HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2313
חִדֶּ֫קֶל
chid.de.qel — Tigris
§ Hiddekel = "rapid" one of the rivers of Eden which coursed east toward Assyria; better known as the Tigris (the LXX equivalent)
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Hiddekel
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Called by the Accadians id Idikla; i.e., “the river of Idikla”, the third of the four rivers of Paradise (Gen. 2:14). Gesenius interprets the word as meaning “the rapid Tigris.” The Tigris rises in the mountains of Armenia, 15 miles south of the source of the Euphrates, which, after pursuing a south-east course, it joins at Kurnah, about 50 miles above Bassorah. Its whole length is about 1,150 miles.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.