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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Sihor
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
(correctly Shi’hor) black; dark the name given to the river Nile in Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18. In Josh. 13:3 it is probably “the river of Egypt”, i.e., the Wady el-Arish (1 Chr. 13:5), which flows “before Egypt”, i.e., in a north-easterly direction from Egypt, and enters the sea about 50 miles south-west of Gaza.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.