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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Shihor-libnath
Not a person but a stream on the southern boundary of Asher. It is generally identified with the Nahr Zarqa, which rises in the Carmel range.
Not a person but a stream on the southern boundary of Asher. It is generally identified with the Nahr Zarqa, which rises in the Carmel range.
Shihor-libnath is not a person but a stream marking part of the southern boundary of the tribe of Asher, mentioned in Joshua 19:26. It is generally identified with the Nahr Zarqa, a river that rises in the Carmel range and empties into the Mediterranean just north of Caesarea. The name, meaning roughly "black-white," may reflect the river's changing color, muddy after rain and clear afterward, and crocodiles were still reported in the Zarqa well into the nineteenth century, a detail later travelers connected to ancient Egyptian associations with the area.
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- Joshua 19:26
