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Strong's #6376 - פִּישׁוֹן
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Pison = “increase”
1) one of the four rivers used to describe the location of the garden of Eden
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פִּישׁוֹן (“water poured forth,” “overflowing”), [Pishon], pr.n. of a river, which, flowing forth from the garden of Eden, surrounded the land of Havilah (i.e. India, see חֲוִילָה No. 3 ), Genesis 2:11 compare Sir. xxiv. 25. Josephus (Arch. i, 1, § 3) understands it to be the Ganges; but (with Schulthess and others) I prefer the Indus, which really surrounds India on the west, and was nearer to the Hebrews. Others, such as Reland (De Situ Paradisi Terrestris, § 3), Rosenmüller (Bibl. Alterthumskunde, i. page 194) understand the Phasis, and regard חֲוִילָה as being Colchis; but the Hebrew name of the Colchians was כַּסְלֻחִים. The Samaritan intpp. thought Pishon was the Nile, and in this sense they used the Hebrew word (see Castell, Annot. Sam. ad Exodus 2:3). This is treated more at length by J. D. Michaëlis, in Supplem. page 2008; Rosenmüller, loc. cit.
