Genesis 2:13
New International Version
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

New Living Translation
The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.

English Standard Version
The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.

Berean Standard Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

King James Bible
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

New King James Version
The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.

New American Standard Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.

NASB 1995
The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.

NASB 1977
And the name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that went around the whole land of Cush.

Amplified Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the entire land of Cush [in Mesopotamia].

Christian Standard Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.

American Standard Version
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the name of the second river is Gihon, which goes around to all the land of Kush.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the name of the second river is Geon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia.

Contemporary English Version
The second is the Gihon River that winds through Ethiopia.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia

English Revised Version
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The name of the second river is Gihon. This is the one that winds throughout Sudan.

Good News Translation
The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush.

International Standard Version
The name of the second river is Gihon— it winds through the entire land of Cush.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

Literal Standard Version
and the name of the second river [is] Gihon, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

Majority Standard Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

New American Bible
The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush.

NET Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

New Revised Standard Version
The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush.

New Heart English Bible
And the name of the second river is Gihon; it goes around the whole land of Cush.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same that compasseth the whole land of Cush.

World English Bible
The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

Young's Literal Translation
and the name of the second river is Gibon, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

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Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
12And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there. 13The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush. 14The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.…

Cross References
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.


Treasury of Scripture

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.

Gihon.

Ethiopia.

Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

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Genesis 2
1. The first Sabbath.
4. Further details concerning the manner of creation.
8. The planting of the garden of Eden, and its situation;
15. man is placed in it; and the tree of knowledge forbidden.
18. The animals are named by Adam.
21. The making of woman, and the institution of marriage.














(13) Gihon, "the river that bursts forth," has been supposed to be the Nile, because it is said to wind about Ethiopia (Cush). According to this view, there was originally no break between Asia and Africa, and the Nile, entering Abyssinia from Arabia, took thence a northerly course, and traversed Egypt. But Cush is now known to have signified at this period the southern half of Arabia, and it was not until later times that the name was carried by colonists to Abys. sinia. Moreover Gihon, in Arabic Jaihan, is a common name among the Arabs for a river, and perhaps the Oxus is here meant, which flowed northward from Armenia into the Caspian. Mr. Sayce, however, thinks it is the Araxes, "the river of Babylon," which flowed westward into the desert of Cush, in Arabia (Chald, Gen., p. 84).

Verse 13. - And the name of the second is the Gihon, or "the bursting," from גֵּיחַ, to break forth. "Deep-flowing," T. Lewis renders it, connecting it with ὡκεανός, and identifying it with Homer's βαθυῥῤόος Ωκεανός. The same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia (Cush). Under the impression that the African Cush was meant, the Alexandrine Jews discovered the Gihon in the Nile - an opinion in which they have been followed by Schulthess, Gesenius, Furst, Bertheau, Kalisch, and others. But Cush, it is now known, describes the entire region between Arabia and the Nile, and in particular the southern district of the former lying between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Hence Tayler Lewis finds the Gihon in the ocean water sweeping round the south coast of Arabia. Murphy detects the name Kush in the words Caucasus and Caspian, and, looking for the site of Eden about the sources of the Euphrates and the Tigris in Armenia, thinks the Gihon may have been the leading stream flowing into the Caspian. Delitzsch advocates the claim of the Araxis to be this river.

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Hebrew
The name
וְשֵֽׁם־ (wə·šêm-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8034: A name

of the second
הַשֵּׁנִ֖י (haš·šê·nî)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 8145: Second (an ordinal number)

river
הַנָּהָ֥ר (han·nā·hār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity

[is] Gihon;
גִּיח֑וֹן (gî·ḥō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1521: Gihon -- 'a bursting forth', one of the rivers of Eden, also a spring near Jerusalem

it
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

winds through
הַסּוֹבֵ֔ב (has·sō·w·ḇêḇ)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5437: To turn about, go around, surround

the whole
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

land
אֶ֥רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Cush.
כּֽוּשׁ׃ (kūš)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3568: A son of Ham, also his descendants, also a land in the southern Nile Valley


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