Text -- Genesis 2:13 (NET)

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 2:13

¹ tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

² sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.