Genesis 2:10-14
river <05104> [a river.]
Eden <05731> [Eden.]
Eden denotes pleasure or delight; but was certainly the name of a place, and was, most probably, situated in Armenia, near the sources of the great rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Phasis, and Araxes.
Havilah <02341> [Havilah.]
Bdellium is a transparent aromatic gum. The onyx is a precious stone, so called from a Greek word signifying a man's nail, to the colour of which it nearly approaches.
lazuli <07718> [onyx.]
Gihon <01521> [Gihon.]
The Araxes, which runs into the Caspian sea.
Cush <03568> [Ethiopia. Heb. Cush.]
The country of the ancient Cussaei.
Tigris <02313> [Hiddekel.]
[The Tigris. toward the east of. or, eastward to.]
Euphrates <06578> [Euphrates.]
Ezra 8:21
called <07121> [I proclaimed.]
humble ... before <06031 06440> [afflict ourselves.]
seek <01245> [to seek.]
children <02945> [for our little ones.]
Ezra 8:31
Ahava Canal <0163 05104> [the river of Ahava.]
hand <03027 03709> [the hand.]
delivered <05337> [and he delivered.]
Ezra and his company had now entered upon a journey of several hundred miles through the desert, which they were nearly four months in completing, encumbered with families and possessions, and carrying large treasures with them, which would invite the attempts of the Arabian hordes, and others, that infested that neighbourhood; yet, having declared to the king, "that the hand of God was upon all them for good that seek him, and that his power and wrath were against all them that forsook him," (ver. 22,) he determined to travel without a guard, except that of the Almighty, being ashamed to ask any other, after his former avowed confidence in Him! Having, therefore, humbled themselves before the Lord, and besought his guidance and protection, he was intreated by them, their enemies were restrained or disabled, and they arrived unmolested at Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 1:1
thirtieth <07970> [in the thirtieth.]
among <08432> [as I.]
exiles <01473> [captives. Heb. captivity. by the river.]
Kebar <03529> [Chebar.]
Chebar, called now Khabour, is a river of Mesopotamia, which taking its rise in the Mysian mountains, falls into the Euphrates near Carchemish, or Circesioum, now Karkisia, about 35 degrees 20' N. lat. and 40 degrees 25' E. long.
heavens <08064> [the heavens.]
saw <07200> [I saw.]
