HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7884
שִׁיחוֹר לִבְנָת
shi.chor liv.nat — Shihor-libnath
§ Shihor-libnath = "blackness of whiteness" a stream in Asher
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Shihor-Libnath
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Historical dictionary entry
Black-white, a stream on the borders of Asher, probably the modern Nahr Zerka, i.e., the “crocodile brook,” or “blue river”, which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean a little to the north of Caesarea (Josh. 19:26). Crocodiles are still found in the Zerka. Thomson suspects “that long ages ago some Egyptians, accustomed to worship this ugly creature, settled here (viz., at Caesarea), and brought their gods with them. Once here they would not easily be exterminated” (The Land and the Book).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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