Tigris River
ti'-gris (Tigris, the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew
chiddeqel): One of the rivers of Eden going "eastward to
Assyria" (Gen 2:14 margin), called the Great River (Dan
10:4), elsewhere mentioned in the apocryphal books, as in
Tob 6:1; Judith 1:6; Ecclesiasticus 24:25, called Diglath in
Josephus, and Diglit in Pliny, now called in Mesopotamia
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is used by the LXX. as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew
Hiddekel, and occurs also in several of the apocryphal books,
as in Tobit, ch. 6:1, Judith, ch. 1:6, and Ecclesiasticus, ch.
24:25. The Tigris, like the Euphrates, rises from two
principal sources in the Armenian mountains, and flows into
the Euphrates. Its length, exclusive of windings...
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(See HIDDEKEL.) Genesis 2:14, "running eastward to Assyria."
Daniel 10:4, "the great river." Rising in the Armenian
mountains, not far from the sources of Euphrates, it flows
N.E. of the latter for 1,100 miles, when at last they join and
flow as one river into the Persian gulf. Its greatest breadth
is more than 200 yards. For the last two hund...
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