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Strong's #1521: Giychown (pronounced ghee-khone')

or (shortened) Gichown {ghee-khone'}; from 1518; stream; Gichon, a river of Paradise; also a valley (or pool) near Jerusalem:--Gihon.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ

gı̂ychôn / gichôn

Gihon = "bursting forth"

1) one of the four rivers of the Garden of Eden

2) a spring near Jerusalem where the anointing and proclaiming of Solomon as king took place

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H1518



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Genesis 2:13: "And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole"
1 Kings 1:33: "mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:"
1 Kings 1:38: "mule, and brought him to Gihon."
1 Kings 1:45: "have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing,"
2 Chronicles 32:30: "the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side"
2 Chronicles 33:14: "the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate"









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