Topic
Pishon; Pison
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Genesis 2:11ISBE
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 1 references
pi'-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 (Ge 2:11), most probably identified with the Karun River which comes down from the mountains of Media and formerly emptied into the Persian Gulf.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.