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Hiddekel
also known as: Hid-dekel, Arvand Rud (“swift river”)
Hebrew: חִדֶּקֶל —transliteration: Chiddeqel
Hiddekel is the Hebrew name of two Biblical rivers, one post-Flood and one pre-Flood.
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Hiddekel of Mesopotamia
also known as: Tigris, Tigra, Tiggar, Dekel, Dikla, Digla, Idikla
The Hebrew name Hiddekel is associated with a river of the post-Flood world, commonly known as the Tigris.
The Tigris River starts in the Armenian Taurus Mountains mountains of eastern Turkey. It flows south touching Syria and then into Iraq, passing by Mosul (ancient Nineveh) and Baghdad, it merges with the slower moving Euphrates River at Shatt al-Arab (Šaṭṭ al-ʿArab), Iraq. It then proceeds through the remainder of Iraq and out into the Persian Gulf.
Various ancient cultures were dependant on the Tigris. Many archaeological ruins have been found along the river’s length.
Matthew G. Easton writes of this river,
Hiddekel was called by the Accadians Idikla; i.e., “the river of Idikla.”
Hebraist, Orientalist, lexicographer, and theologian Wilhelm Gesenius interpreted the word as meaning “the rapid Tigris.” —Wilhelm Gesenius, Thesaurus philologicus criticus linguae Hebraeae et Chaldaeae veteris testamenti, 1835, p. 448
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Hiddekel of Eden
This is a river created by God in the original Creation in the pre-Flood world in the land of Eden. It is now extinct, destroyed by the worldwide Flood catastrophe.
It was the 3rd of 4 rivers of the paradise world God created (Genesis 2:14).
The four rivers produced by the pre-Flood river of Eden were Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Perath (Euphrates) River—See: Genesis 2:10-14 LSB.
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