H1521: גִּיחוֹן
Gîychôwn · pronounced ghee-khone' · “Gihon”
Definition
Gichon, a river of Paradise; also a valley (or pool) near Jerusalem
KJV translates it as: Gihon.
Word origin: or (shortened) גִּחוֹן; from H1518 (גִּיחַ)lemma גּיחַ missing vowel, corrected to גִּיחַ; stream;
Extended definition
one of the four rivers of the Garden of Eden
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1521 is translated
- gihon ×5
- is gihon ×1
Bible verses with H1521 (Gîychôwn)
Gîychôwn appears in 6 verses.
- Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
- 1 Kings 1:33
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
- 1 Kings 1:38
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:45
And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.