McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Geon

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Geon


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( Ãçῶí ), a Grencized form (comp. Gen_2:13, Sept. Ãåῶí ) of the name GIHON SEE GIHON (q.v.), one of the rivers of Paradise, mentioned (Sir_24:27) along with the Jordan, Euphrates, etc., in a description of wisdom (“as Geon in the time of vintage,” meaning apparently the Nile at its period of annual overflow. Fritzsche, ad loc.).