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Pison, an eminent branch of the river Tigris, probably that called by others Pasi-tigris, or Piso-tigris.
That is it which compasseth, i.e. with many windings and turnings passed through; as this word is used, Jos_15:3 Mat_23:15.
This whole land of Havilah; either that which is in those parts of Arabia which is towards Mesopotamia, so called from Havilah the issue of Cham, Gen_10:7; or that which is nigh Persia, and in the borders of India, so called from another Havilah of the posterity of Shem, Gen_10:29. To either of these following the description agrees well.