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Pharpar
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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("swift" or else "crooked"). One of the chief rivers of Syria, eight miles from Damascus 2 Kings 5:12); the Awaj, as the Abana is the Baruda. The ridge jebel Aswad separates Pharpar from Damascus. Pharpar rising on the S.E. side of Hermon ends in the bahret Hijaneh, the most southern of the three lakes or swamps of Damascus, due E. 40 miles from its source. Smaller than the Barada, and sometimes dried up in its lower course, which the Barada never is.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Pharpar'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/pharpar.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Pharpar'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/pharpar.html. 1949.
