black; trouble
(the river Nile)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
(See SHIHOR.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Si'hor. (dark). Accurately, Shi'hor, once, The Shihor, or Shihor of Egypt, when unqualified, a name of the Nile. It is held to signify "the black" or "turbid". In Jeremiah, the identity of Shihor with the Nile seems distinctly stated. Jer_2:18. The stream mentioned in 1Ch_13:5 is possibly that of the Wadi l' Areesh.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
sı̄?hôr. See SHIHOR.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Si?hor, more properly Shichor, the Hebrew proper name for the Nile (Isa_23:3; Jer_2:18). The word means 'black;' and a corresponding name or epithet was by the Greeks applied to the same river on account of the black slime left after the subsidence of the inundation.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
(Jos_13:3). SEE SHIHOR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.