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Sihor

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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.

 

 

 

 

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