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    Brook of Egypt

    נַ֫חַל

    The Brook of Egypt (Shihor) marked the southwestern boundary of the Promised Land.

    Where the story of Brook of Egypt happens Brook of Egypt, and 5 places the claims reach, framed to them: Brook_of_Egypt, Zin, Addar, Azmon, Kadesh, Salt_Sea. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Brook_of_EgyptZinAddarAzmonKadeshSalt_Sea
    Brook of Egypt, and 5 places the claims reach
    verses
    11
    first named
    Numbers 34:5
    last named
    Ezekiel 48:28
    feature
    river
    coordinates
    31.15°N · 33.81°E
    river31.15°N · 33.81°E

    Wadi al Arish (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 5 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Brook of Egypt in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    The Brook of Egypt, also known as Shihor, was a waterway that marked the southwestern boundary of the Promised Land. It is mentioned in several passages describing the extent of the Israelite territory (Numbers 34:5; Joshua 15:4, 47; 1Ki.8.65; 2Ch.7.8; Ezk.47.19; 48:28). The Brook of Egypt is generally identified with the Wadi el-Arish, a seasonal stream that flows into the Mediterranean Sea near the modern border between Israel and Egypt.

    In Joshua 13:3, Shihor is described as being "east of Egypt," suggesting that it was a separate body of water from the Nile River. However, in Isaiah 23:3, Shihor seems to be associated with the Nile, possibly referring to one of its eastern branches. The Brook of Egypt served not only as a geographical boundary but also as a symbol of the extent of God's promise to Israel and the limit of their conquest. During the reign of King Josiah, the Brook of Egypt was mentioned as the southern limit of Judah's territory (2Ki.24.7).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    and 19 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Brook of Egypt is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 11 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA3 VERSESISAIAH2 VERSES40 books and 339 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 11 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA3 VERSESISAIAH2 VERSES40 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Brook of Egypt is named in 11 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 59 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 7 books.

    1. Numbers1 verse

      34:5

    2. Joshua3 verses

      13:315:415:47

    3. 1 Kings1 verse

      8:65

    4. 2 Kings1 verse

      24:7

    5. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      7:8

    6. Isaiah2 verses

      23:327:12

    7. Ezekiel2 verses

      47:1948:28

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

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    What happened here

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