How to Pronounce Sihor
SYE-hor
Sihor is pronounced SYE-hor (ˈsaɪhɔː): two syllables, stress on the first.
What does Sihor mean?
Sihor means “black; trouble (the river Nile)”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
What is Sihor?
(correctly Shi’hor) black; dark the name given to the river Nile in Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18. In Josh. 13:3 it is probably “the river of Egypt”, i.e., the Wady el-Arish (1 Chr. 13:5), which flows “before Egypt”, i.e., in a north-easterly direction from Egypt, and enters the sea about 50 miles south-west of Gaza.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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