Places of the Bible
Nile
River
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Nile, 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.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Joseph imprisoned · 1717 BC · 3 verses
- Exodus from Egypt · 1490 BC · 10 verses
- Wilderness Wanderings · 1490 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 3 verses
- Prophecies of Nahum · 662 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 3 verses
- Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 3 verses
- Prophecies of Zechariah · 519 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Dark; blue, not found in Scripture, but frequently referred to in the Old Testament under the name of Sihor, i.e., “the black stream” (Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18) or simply “the river” (Gen. 41:1; Ex. 1:22, etc.) and the “flood of Egypt” (Amos 8:8). It consists of two rivers, the White Nile, which takes its rise in the Victoria Nyanza, and the Blue Nile, which rises in the Abyssinian Mountains. These unite at the town of Khartoum, whence it pursues its course for 1,800 miles, and falls into the Mediterranean through its two branches, into which it is divided a few miles north of Cairo, the Rosetta and the Damietta branch.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 30 verses
- Genesis
- 41:1, 41:2, 41:3, 41:17, 41:18
- Exodus
- 1:22, 4:9, 7:15, 7:17, 7:18, 7:20, 7:21, 7:24, 7:25, 8:3, 8:9, 8:11, 17:5
- 1 Chronicles
- 13:5
- Isaiah
- 19:7, 23:3, 23:10
- Jeremiah
- 2:18, 46:7, 46:8
- Ezekiel
- 29:3, 29:9, 30:12
- Nahum
- 3:8
- Zechariah
- 10:11
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.