Egypt, River
EGYPT, RIVER (RV [Note: Revised Version.] brook, better wady) OF.The S.W. boundary of Palestine (Num 34:5, Isa 27:12 etc.; cf. river (nahar) of Egypt, Gen 15:18, and simply the wady, Eze 47:19; Eze 48:28). It is the Wady el-Arish, still the boundary of Egypt, in the desert half-way between Pe usium and Gaza. Water is always to be found by digging in the bed of the wady, and after heavy rain the latter is filled with a rushing stream. El-Arish, where the wady reaches the Mediterranean, was an Egyptian frontier post to which malefactors were banished after having their noses cut off; hence its Greek name Rhinocorura. See also Shihor, Shur.
F. Ll. Griffith.