![]() Here they came in contact with the Hagarites, who appear upon the Middle Euphrates in the Assyrian inscriptions of the later empire. In Deuteronomy and Joshua we find that this promise was borne in mind at the time of the settlement in Canaan (De 1:7 De 11:24 Jos 1:4) and from an important passage in the first book of Chronicles it appears that the tribe of Reuben did actually extend itself to the Euphrates in the times anterior to Saul (1Ch 5:9). We next hear of it in the covenant made with Abraham (Ge 15:18), where the whole country from "the great river, the river Euphrates," to the river of Egypt is promised to the chosen race. Its celebrity is there sufficiently indicated by the absence of any explanatory phrase, such as accompanies the names of the other streams. It is first mentioned in Ge 2:14, where the Euphrates is stated to be the fourth of the riflers which flowed from a common stream in the garden of Eden. In like manner, it is termed in De 1:7 "the great river." The Euphrates is named in the cuneiform inscriptions (q.v.).ġ. Thus, in Ex 23:3, we read, "from the desert unto the river" (comp. But it is most frequently denoted in the Bible by the tearn הִנָּהָר, han-nahar', i.e., "the river," the river of Asia, in grand contrast with the shortlived torrents of Palestine, being by far the most considerable stream in that part of the continent. The Euphrates is thus "the good and abounding river." It is not improbable that in common parlance the name was soon shortened to its modern form of Frat, which is almost exactly what the Hebrew Uiteration expresses. "sweet water," referring to the present Arabic name Frah as having that signify but Furst refers to an obsolete root indicating the impetuous character of the stream), and is probably a word of Arian origin, the initial element being 'u, which is in Sanscrit su, in Zend ha, and in Greek ε῏υ and the second element being fra, the particle of abundance. Euphra'tes is the Greek form (Εὐφράτης) of the river designated in Hebrews by the name PHRATH or Perath' (פּרָת, which Gesenius regards as i.q. ![]()
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