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Strong's Hebrew

1521. Gichon -- "a bursting forth," one of the rivers of Eden ...
... Word Origin from giach Definition "a bursting forth," one of the rivers of Eden,
also a spring near Jer. NASB Word Usage Gihon (6). Gihon. ...
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Library

On the Creation of the World
... Moses to Christ the Lord, the Son of God; and four living creatures, viz., a man,
a calf, a lion, an eagle; and four rivers, the Pison, the Gihon, the Tigris ...
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The Beauty of Paradise.
... especially Gihon, which encompasses the whole land of Ethiopia, and which, they
say, reappears in Egypt under the name of Nile. And the other two rivers are ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxiv the beauty of paradise.htm

Letter Li. From Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, in Cyprus, to John ...
... thou to do in the way of Egypt to drink the muddy water of Gihon?" [1274] I ... But where
there are rivers which admit of being seen and of being drunk, it follows ...
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Genesis.
... Immense receives its wandering [1247] shores, and draws. The rivers manifold with
mighty trains. ... Next Gihon, gliding by the Æthiops,. Enriches them. ...
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Epistle xiii. --To Hierax, a Bishop in Egypt.
... hearts into which it is divided into the one channel of the Gihon, [923] wash ... the
earth, and such blasts from the sea, and breezes from the rivers, and reeking ...
/.../dionysius/the works of dionysius/epistle xiii to hierax a bishop.htm

Letter vii. --For 335. Easter-Day iv Pharmuthi, iii Kal. April; xx ...
... thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Gihon? And what hast thou
to do in the way of Asshur, to drink the waters of the rivers [4169] ?' And ...
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Chapter ii
... complicated. Delitzsch makes Pishon and Gihon two canals connecting the
Tigris with the Euphrates. But canals are not rivers. Some ...
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From the Talmud and Hebraica
... Chapter 4 The seven Seas according to the Talmudists, and the four Rivers compassing
the Land. ... Millo. Chapter 25 Gihon, the same with the Fountain of Siloam. ...
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Letter Lv. Replies to Questions of Januarius.
... but also from terrestrial things, eg from Orion and the Pleiades, Mount Zion, Mount
Sinai, and the rivers of which the names are given, Gihon, Pison, Tigris ...
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The Ecclesiastical Writers. By "The Fathers" we Understand the ...
... devotion. [386:1] If these authorities are to be credited, the Gihon, one
of the rivers of Paradise, was no other than the Nile. [386 ...
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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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