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EGYPT, RIVER (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘brook,’ better ‘wady’) OF.—The S.W. boundary of Palestine (Num_34:5, Isa_27:12 etc.; cf. ‘river (nahar) of Egypt,’ Gen_15:18, and simply ‘the wady,’ Eze_47:19; Eze_48:28). It is the Wady el-Arish, still the boundary of Egypt, in the desert half-way between Pe usium and Gaza. Water is always to be found by digging in the bed of the wady, and after heavy rain the latter is filled with a rushing stream. El-Arish, where the wady reaches the Mediterranean, was an Egyptian frontier post to which malefactors were banished after having their noses cut off; hence its Greek name Rhinocorura. See also Shihor, Shur.
F. Ll. Griffith.