Bible Names

Hiddekel: meaning of the name

Hiddekel means “sharp voice; sound.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Hiddekel in Hebrew and Greek

חִדֶּקֶל H2313

Chiddeqel (khid-deh'-kel) — the Chiddekel (or Tigris) river

probably of foreign origin;

Hiddekel in Scripture

“Hiddekel” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 2:14

    And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

  • Daniel 10:4

    And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;