Bible Dictionaries
Orontes River
Holman Bible Dictionary
The Orontes, modern Asi (Turkish), Nahr el Assi (Arabic), rises near Heliopolis (Bealbek) in the Beka's valley of Lebanon, and flows north some 250 miles through Syria and Turkey before turning southwest through the great city of Antioch to reach the coast just south of ancient Seleucia, the seaport of Antioch. This river is never actually mentioned in the Bible but was famous for its association with Antioch, which owed to the river the fertility of its district. See Antioch . Colin J. Hemer
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Bibliography Information
Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Orontes River'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hbd/o/orontes-river.html. 1991.