Genesis Chapter 2 verse 13 Holy Bible
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
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And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.
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And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush.
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And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
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The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
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and the name of the second river `is' Gibon, it `is' that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - And the name of the second is the Gihon, or "the bursting," from גֵּיחַ, to break forth. "Deep-flowing," T. Lewis renders it, connecting it with ὡκεανός, and identifying it with Homer's βαθυῥῤόος Ωκεανός. The same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia (Cush). Under the impression that the African Cush was meant, the Alexandrine Jews discovered the Gihon in the Nile - an opinion in which they have been followed by Schulthess, Gesenius, Furst, Bertheau, Kalisch, and others. But Cush, it is now known, describes the entire region between Arabia and the Nile, and in particular the southern district of the former lying between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Hence Tayler Lewis finds the Gihon in the ocean water sweeping round the south coast of Arabia. Murphy detects the name Kush in the words Caucasus and Caspian, and, looking for the site of Eden about the sources of the Euphrates and the Tigris in Armenia, thinks the Gihon may have been the leading stream flowing into the Caspian. Delitzsch advocates the claim of the Araxis to be this river.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Gihon, "the river that bursts forth," has been supposed to be the Nile, because it is said to wind about Ethiopia (Cush). According to this view, there was originally no break between Asia and Africa, and the Nile, entering Abyssinia from Arabia, took thence a northerly course, and traversed Egypt. But Cush is now known to have signified at this period the southern half of Arabia, and it was not until later times that the name was carried by colonists to Abys. sinia. Moreover Gihon, in Arabic Jaihan, is a common name among the Arabs for a river, and perhaps the Oxus is here meant, which flowed northward from Armenia into the Caspian. Mr. Sayce, however, thinks it is the Araxes, "the river of Babylon," which flowed westward into the desert of Cush, in Arabia (Chald, Gen., p. 84).
