Hiddekel

See EDEN.

One of the rivers of Paradise. Its modern name is Tigris. See EDEN, and EUPHRATES.\par

Hid’dekel. (rapid). One of the rivers of Eden, the river which "goeth eastward to Assyria," Gen 2:14, and which Daniel calls, "the great river," Dan 10:4, seems to have been rightly identified by the Septuagint (LXX) with the Tigris. Dekel is clearly an equivalent of Digla or Dighath, a name borne by the Tigris in all ages. The name now in use among the inhabitants of Mesopotamia is Dijleh.

Tigris. A river of Eden, going "eastward to Assyria" (Gen 2:14). (See EDEN.) "The great river" (Dan 10:4). From hai "lively," and digla "an arrow," in early Babylonian; equivalent to Tigra in Aryan. Now called by the Arabs Dijleh.

Hiddekel (hĭd’de-kĕl), rapid. One of the rivers of Eden, the river which "goeth eastward to Assyria," Gen 2:14, and which Daniel calls "the great river," Dan 10:4, rightly identified with the Tigris. The name now in use among the inhabitants of Mesopotamia is Dijleh.

[Hid’dekel]

One of the rivers of Eden: supposed to be identical with the Tigris, which is called Dijlah. Gen 2:14; Dan 10:4.

See TIGRIS

(Hebrew, ; Aramaic and Talmudic, ; the modern Dijlah):

HIDDEKEL.—The river Tigris, mentioned as the third river of Paradise (Gen 2:14), and as ‘the great river’ by the side of which Daniel had his vision (Dan 10:4). The Heb. Hiddeqel was taken from the Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] name for the Tigris, Idiglat or Diglat, which was in turn derived from its Sumerian name, Idigna.

L. W. King.

hid´ē̇-kel (חדּקל, ḥiddeḳel): One of the rivers of EDEN (which see) (Gen 2:14, the Revised Version margin “that is, Tigris”; so Septuagint Τίγρις, Tı́gris), said to flow East to Assyria, usually identified with the Tigris, which rises in Armenia near Lake Van and, after flowing Southeast through 8 degrees of latitude, joins the Euphrates in Babylonia to form the Shatt el-’Arab, which runs for 100 miles through a delta which has been formed since the time of Abraham, and now enters the Persian Gulf through 2 branches. About one-third of the distance below its source, and soon after it emerges from the mountains of Kurdistan, the Tigris passes by Mosul, the site of ancient Nineveh, and, lower down at Bagdad, approaches within a few miles of the Euphrates. Here and for many miles below, since the level is lower than that of the Euphrates, numerous canals are conducted to it, irrigating the most fertile portions of Babylonia.