Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word GIHON

Definitions of GIHON

1. (Abrahamic religions) A river issuing out of the Garden of Eden.

Examples of Using GIHON in a Sentence

• The author of Genesis describes Gihon as "encircling the entire land of Cush", a name associated with Ethiopia elsewhere in the Bible.
• A river issued from Eden to water the garden, and then divided into four branches: the Pishon, which winds through Havilah, where the gold is; the Gihon, which winds through Cush; the Tigris, which flows east of Asshur; and the Euphrates.
• The hard dolomite rock around the Gihon Spring pool is honeycombed with natural karst fissures through which groundwater percolates.
• In this theory, the Bible's Gihon River would correspond with the Karun River in Iran, and the Pishon River would correspond to the Wadi Batin river system that once drained the now dry, but once quite fertile central part of the Arabian Peninsula.
• The village was built next to numerous water sources of historical importance, such as the Pool of Siloam (Ain Silwan), Gihon Spring and Ein Rogel.
• The Scribner Covered Bridge, also known as the Mudgett Covered Bridge, is a covered bridge that carries Rocky Road across the Gihon River off State Route 100C in eastern Johnson, Vermont.
• ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”); apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah's Tunnel built in 701 BCE (cf.

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