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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: River of Egypt
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(1) Nehar Mitsraim (); "the Nile".
(2) Nahal Mitsaim (; -4; ; ; ); "the torrent of Egypt": see above nahal, "a stream flowing rapidly in the rainy season, then drying up", inapplicable to the sluggish Nile ever flowing. The Rhinocorura or Rhinocolora (so Septuagint of ) on the sea coast, a wady and torrent running into the sea two or three days' journey from the nearest branch of the Nile. Now wady el Arish. Though not in Egypt, it was the last torrent of any raze on the way toward Egypt from the N. In , "from Sihor which is before Egypt," the same torrent is marked as Israel's southern boundary, as the entering in of Hamath is the northern (; ). The Nile was not "before" (i.e. east of) Egypt, but flowed through the middle of the land; so . Shihor, "the black river," is the Nile's designation in ; .