Place · Water · River
Hiddekel
- ESV name
- Tigris
- Also called
- Tigris
- Coordinates
- 35.9833, 43.3465 · rough
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Called by the Accadians id Idikla; i.e., “the river of Idikla”, the third of the four rivers of Paradise (Gen. 2:14). Gesenius interprets the word as meaning “the rapid Tigris.” The Tigris rises in the mountains of Armenia, 15 miles south of the source of the Euphrates, which, after pursuing a south-east course, it joins at Kurnah, about 50 miles above Bassorah. Its whole length is about 1,150 miles.
The Edenic river path would have been far different than post-flood geography