Does anybody know where the river Pihon was?

Question

It was somewhere in the Middle East

Answer 1

From what I can discover, the Pihon is also called the Pishon. However, nobody seems to know where it is! Closest guess seems to be Yemen. Here is my research, with the websites I found it on:

A river runs from Eden to water the garden, and then it divides and becomes four branches. The name of the first is Pihon, the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is. (The gold of that land is good; bdellium is there, and lapis lazuli.) The name of the second river is Gihon, the one that winds through the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris, the one that flows east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates

The Pishon is mentioned in the Biblical Genesis (2:11) as one of four rivers branching off from a single river within the Eden. The river is described as encircling "the entire land of Havilah", now associated with North West Yemen.

Since the only two identified rivers said to issue forth from Eden, the Tigris (Hiddekel, from Genesis 2:14) and the Euphrates, do not rise in the same place, it can be assumed that either the topography of the area has changed or the geographical notions of the Genesis writer or writers were inaccurate. However, some scholars have questioned English translations that say the rivers issued forth from Eden, and claim improved renderings are more flexible in their description, thereby allowing Eden to be a confluence point for four rivers originating elsewhere.

Christian fundamentalists have sometimes appealed to the effects of the Noachian Flood to explain the seeming disappearance of the Pishon river and the change in the upper courses of the Tigris and the Euphrates. But if the "land of Havilah" does indeed refer to Yemen, then the Pishon may correspond to an ancient dry riverbed that terminated in the Persian Gulf. Evidence of this river is visible in satellite photos and a telltale, fan-shaped delta of gravel deposits at the old river mouth.

Together with the Tigris, the river Pishon is briefly mentioned in the apocryphal work of Ecclesiasticus (24:35), but this reference throws no more light on the location of the river.

Havilah is usually associated with northwest Yemen
Cush: The locality of this area has been questioned, with some believing it refers to countries south of the Israelites, and others stating it refers to part of Africa, such as Ethiopia, in ancient inscriptions written as Kesh. Samuel Bochart maintained that it was exclusively in Arabia, while Friedrich Schulthess and Heinrich Gesenius held that it should be sought in Africa.

Asshur: The Hebrew text of Gen. 10:11 is somewhat ambiguous as to whether it was Ashur himself (eg. as reads the KJV), or Nimrod who built the cities of Nineveh, etc. in Assyria, since the name Ashur can refer to either the person or the country.

The Euphrates and the Tigris are rivers that we actually know wherethey are! They are the two rivers that marked the edge of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria, and southern Turkey)

None of these places seem to coincide so they could form the Garden of Eden, so I am not sure where to suggest you look!
Over to you!

Answer 2

This was said to be in the Garden of Eden, which would place it in Iraq.

Answer 3

I find this site www.nps.gov/dino/eco/Community.html ,and www.torahstories.com/bereshith.doc ,but I don t know is this answer to your question.......

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pishon


river pishon?

Answer 5

Do you mean Zion? that's in israel.