Tigris
חִדֶּ֫קֶלStrong’s H2313chiddeqel (chid-de-qel)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chiddeqel is the Hebrew word usually translated “tigris”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;”
Meaning
- § Hiddekel = "rapid"
How it's translated
- tigris 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חִדֶּ֫קֶל chiddeqel · Tigris
§ Hiddekel = "rapid" one of the rivers of Eden which coursed east toward Assyria; better known as the Tigris (the LXX equivalent)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.