Gihon

Gihon or Gihon is the name of a stream, which is mentioned in the first Genesis 2:11 in the Bible.

" A stream rises in Eden, which irrigates the garden; there it divides and becomes four main rivers. One is called Pishon; he is the one who flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; there is also bdellium and onyx stones. The second river is Gihon; he is the one who flows around the whole land of Cush. The third river is the Tigris; it is he that flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. God, the Lord, took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to till it and keep. "

After Meyers Lexicon is Gihon: "1 Mos. 2, 13 one of the four rivers of Paradise, in Oriental writers of the river Amu ( Oxus ), according to others, the Nile; also source and valley near Jerusalem, perhaps today's Marie source accordingly. "

Other rivers and regions, for example from eastern Turkey were suspected. The English Egyptologist David Rohl identified according to a study of Genesis in its original Hebrew Turkish Aras River as the Gihon. Rohl says that in Genesis is in the second chapter of not four main branches of the speech, but the fact that he shares four sources, therefore the headwaters is meant.

A source in Jerusalem also bears the name of Gihon. Whether the watercourse which springs from the Gihon Spring, identical with the biblical Gihon is, or whether only one of traditional name was used again, is unclear. The waters of the Gihon Spring flows through a tunnel to the Pool of Siloam, which is located at the southern end of the city of David.

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  • Place in the Bible
  • Mythical River
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