Places of the Bible

Gihon

One of the four rivers of Eden · River · pre-flood river · location unknown

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Gihon, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

Creation of Adam and Eve · 4003 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

One of the four rivers of Eden (Gen. 2:13). It has been identified with the Nile. Others regard it as the Oxus, or the Araxes, or the Ganges. But as, according to the sacred narrative, all these rivers of Eden took their origin from the head-waters of the Euphrates and the Trigris, it is probable that the Gihon is the ancient Araxes, which, under the modern name of the Arras, discharges itself into the Caspian Sea. It was the Asiatic and not the African “Cush” which the Gihon compassed (Gen. 10:7-10).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 1 verse

Genesis: 2:13

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.