For the Okinawan king, see Gihon (Ryukyu).

For the Gihon Spring in Jerusalem, see Gihon Spring. For the river mentioned in Genesis, see Gihon. The Gihon Spring was the main source of water for Ophel, the

Gihon is the name of a river first mentioned in the second chapter of the Biblical book of Genesis. "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin The Gihon is mentioned as one of four rivers (along with the Tigris, Euphrates, and Pishon) issuing out of the Garden of Eden that branched from a single river within the garden. The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great Rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of southeastern The Euphrates ( ( Arabic: ar نهر الفرات; Turkish: tr Fırat Syriac: syr ܦܪܬ; Hebrew: he פרת The Pishon is one of four Rivers (along with the Tigris, Euphrates, and Gihon) mentioned in the Biblical Genesis (211 Not to be confused with Eden Gardens.The Garden of Eden ( Hebrew "pleasure" גַּן עֵדֶן Arabic: جنات عدن, The name (Hebrew Giħôn) may be interpreted as "Bursting Forth, Gushing".

The Gihon is described as "encircling the entire land of Cush", a name associated with Ethiopia elsewhere in the Bible. See also Kush Cush ( kuʃ) was the eldest son of Ham, brother of Canaan and the father of Nimrod, mentioned NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page This is one of the reasons that Ethiopians have long identified the Gihon with the Abay River, which encircles the former kingdom of Gojjam. The Blue Nile ( Amharic: ዓባይ transliterated ʿ Abbai, but pronounced Abbai; Arabic: النيل الأزرق transliterated Gojjam ( Ge'ez ጎጃም gōjjām, originally ጐዛም gʷazzam, later ጐዣም gʷažžām, ጎዣም gōžžām) was a province From a current geographic standpoint this would seem impossible, since two of the other rivers said to issue out of Eden, the Tigris and the Euphrates, are in Mesopotamia. The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great Rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of southeastern The Euphrates ( ( Arabic: ar نهر الفرات; Turkish: tr Fırat Syriac: syr ܦܪܬ; Hebrew: he פרת Mesopotamia (from the Greek meaning "land between the rivers" is an area geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers largely corresponding However, the scholar Edward Ullendorff has argued in support of this identification. Edward Ullendorff (born 1920 is a British academic and an authority on Semitic languages and Ethiopia. ^[1] The city in the Mesopotamian area which best fits the description is called Kish located in a plain area (Sumerian 'edin') and resembles an area that is repeatedly flooded by the rivers today called Euphrates and Tigris.

Nineteenth century, Modern, and Arabic scholars have sought to identify the "land of Cush" with Hindu Kush, and Gihon with Amu Darya (Dghon in Arabic) because Amu Darya was known in Arabic antiquity as Jayhun. The Hindu Kush is a Mountain range located between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Amu Darya (formerly Oxus River the Greeks (Ptolemeus called it Oxiana palus) is the longest river in Central Asia. ^[2] This was a derivative of Dgihon, or Gjhon as it is still known by local Afghani, and Uzbeki tribes. ^[3][4]

Gihon has also been associated with the Araxes (modern Aras) river of Turkey. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Another proposed idea is that the Gihon river no longer exists, or has significantly altered its course, since the topography of the area has supposedly been altered by the Noachian Flood. The story of a Great Flood (also known as the Deluge) sent by a Deity or deities to destroy Civilization as an act of Divine retribution is a

Some modern secular scholars note that the Gihon river remains unidentified, since the geographical ideas of the author(s) of Genesis cannot be reconstructed and need not conform with actual geography as known today: In Genesis 2, the Euphrates, Tigris, Gihon and Pishon rivers are all said to issue out of Eden and become 'four heads', but the Euphrates and the Tigris do not take their rise in the same place, and the Pishon river remains as unidentified. The Pishon is one of four Rivers (along with the Tigris, Euphrates, and Gihon) mentioned in the Biblical Genesis (211

First-century Jewish historian Josephus associated the Gihon river with the Nile (Jewish Antiquities, 1. Josephus (AD 37 – c 100 also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu (Joseph son of Matthias and after he became a Roman citizen, as Titus Flavius Josephus The Nile (النيل, Ancient Egyptian iteru or Ḥ'pī, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing River 39). However, a quite different Hebrew word is used to designate the Nile elsewhere in the Bible, and even in ancient times it should have been obvious that the Nile could not have a common source with the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Gihon is also the name of the only natural spring of water in the vicinity of Jerusalem. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the It feeds the Pool of Siloam. Pool of Siloam (Breikhat Hashiloah is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David (believed to be the original site of Jerusalem) now outside the walls See "Gihon Spring". For the river mentioned in Genesis, see Gihon. The Gihon Spring was the main source of water for Ophel, the The Book of Jasher refers to the "Great Sea Gihon", which is believed to mean the Atlantic Ocean.

See also

• Pison
• al-Qurnah

References

External links

• Walter Reinhold Wartting Mattfeld y de la Torre, The Gihon River is Wadi Aqiq and Cush is Harrat Kishb? (Or is Wadi al Ghinah the Gihon?), BibleOrigins.net.

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