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What does it mean that Gichon flows through Kush?

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Where on earth did you get those weird translations? There is no connection at all between "pishon" and "hope", or "chavila" and "suffering". If "Pishon" means anything at all, it has to do with "increase", as in a river flooding its banks in the spring. read more

It means simply that the Pishon river surrounds Chavila where gold is mined, and the Gichon river flows through Kush (which sometimes means Northeast Africa, and sometimes the Hindu Kush; see the dispute of Rav and Shmuel in Megilla 11a regarding which Kush is meant in Esther 1: 1). read more

I believe you mean Numbers 13: 22, 28. The Anakim or sons of Anak were a tribe or ethnic group of extraordinary physical size. Anak literally means “long-necked”, in other words, tall. read more

Gihon. a stream. One of the four rivers of Eden ( Genesis 2: 13). It has been identified with the Nile. Others regard it as the Oxus, or the Araxes, or the Ganges. read more

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