Strong H1521גִּיחוֹן
Gihon
- Transliteration
- gîychôn gichôn
- Pronunciation
- {ghee-khone'} ghee-khone'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
From H1518; stream;
{Gichon} a river of Paradise; also a valley (or pool) near Jerusalem: - Gihon.
{Gichon} a river of Paradise; also a valley (or pool) near Jerusalem: - Gihon.
Meaning of the name
Gihon = "bursting forth"
Detailed definition
Gihon refers to both a river of Eden (Genesis 2:13) and a spring near Jerusalem (1 Kings 1:33, 38, 45; 2 Chronicles 32:30; 33:14).
In the biblical story
Gihon
A river of Eden; a spring near Jerusalem.
Gihon refers to both a river of Eden (Genesis 2:13) and a spring near Jerusalem (1 Kings 1:33, 38, 45; 2 Chronicles 32:30; 33:14).
In the Bible
Strong H1521 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- gihon6
First verses
- Genesis 2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
- 1 Kings 1:33The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
- 1 Kings 1:38So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 1:45And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.