HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7883
שִׁיחוֹר
shi.chor — Shihor
§ Shihor or Sihor = "dark" a river or canal on east border of Egypt and a branch of the Nile
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Shihor
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7884
שִׁיחוֹר לִבְנָת
shi.chor liv.nat — Shihor-libnath
§ Shihor-libnath = "blackness of whiteness" a stream in Asher
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Dark, (1 Chr. 13:5), the southwestern boundary of Canaan, the Wady el-‘Arish. (See SIHOR; NILE.)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.