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Sihor

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Si´hor, more properly Shichor, the Hebrew proper name for the Nile (; ). The word means 'black;' and a corresponding name or epithet was by the Greeks applied to the same river on account of the black slime left after the subsidence of the inundation.

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Sihor'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​s/sihor.html.
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