Hitchcock's Bible Names
Pisonchanging; extension of the mouth
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Pison[EDEN]
ATS Bible Dictionary
PisonOne of the four rivers that watered Paradise, Genesis 2:11-12, and which ran through all the land of Havilah, where excellent gold was found. It has, of course, been placed as variously as the Garden of Eden, to which article and EUPHRATES the reader is referred.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PISHON; PISONpi'-shon pi'-son (pishon; the King James Version): A river of EDEN (which see), said to compass the whole land of Havilah where there is gold, bdellium and onyx stone (Genesis 2:11), most probably identified with the Karun River which comes down from the mountains of Media and formerly emptied into the Persian Gulf.
PISON
pi'-son.
See PISHON.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Babylonian, the current, broad-flowing, one of the "four heads" into which the river which watered the garden of Eden was divided (
Genesis 2:11). Some identify it with the modern Phasis, others with the Halys, others the Jorak or Acampis, others the Jaab, the Indus, the Ganges, etc.
Strong's Hebrew
6376. Pishon -- one of the rivers of Eden... 1).
Pison. From puwsh; dispersive; Pishon, a river of Eden --
Pison. see HEBREW
puwsh. << 6375, 6376. Pishon. 6377 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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