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Pison

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The Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary by Robert Hawker (1828)

One of the four great rivers which watered Eden. (Gen. 2: 11.) Compounded of Pe, mouth, and Shanah, to change. - - A river changing.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary by American Tract Society (1859)

One of the four rivers that watered Paradise, Gen 2:11-12, and which ran through all the land of Havilah, where excellent gold was found. It has, of course, been placed as variously as the Garden of Eden, to which article and EUPHRATES the reader is referred.\par

Smith's Bible Dictionary by William Smith (1863)

Pi’son. See Eden.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary by Andrew Robert Fausset (1878)

One of the four heads of Eden’s river (Gen 2:11), compassing Havilah. (See EDEN.)

New and Concise Bible Dictionary by George Morrish (1899)

[Pi’son]

One of the four ’heads’ or main streams into which the river divided that flowed through Eden. Gen 2:11. Not identified.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia by James Orr (ed.) (1915)

pı̄´son. See PISHON.

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