Shihor-Libnath
Shihor-libnath
(Heb. Shichor’ Libnath’, , literally, black of whiteness; Sept. [v.r. ] ; Vulg. Sichor et Labanath), a locality mentioned only in Jos 19:26 as one of the landmarks of the southern boundary of Asher in the vicinity of Carmel and Beth-dagon. By the ancient translators and commentators (as Peshito-Syriac, and Eusebius and Jerome in the Onomasticon) the names are taken as belonging to two distinct places. But modern commentators, beginning perhaps with Masius, have inferred from the fact that Shihor alone is a name of the Nile, that Shihor-libnath is likewise a river. Led by the meaning of Libnath as white, they interpret the Shihor-libnath as the glass river, which they then naturally identify with the Belus (q.v.) of Pliny (H.N. 5, 19), the present Nahr Naman, which drains part of the plain of Akka, and enters the Mediterranean a short distance below that city. This theory, at once so ingenious and so consistent, is supported by the great names of Michaelis (Suppl. No. 2462) and Gesenius (Thesaur. p. 1393); but the territory of Asher certainly extended far south of the Naman. Reland’s conjecture of the Crocodile River, probably the Nahr Zerka close to Kaisariyeh, is on the other hand, too far south, since Daor is not within the limits of Asher. The Shihor-libnath, if a stream at all, is more likely to have been the little stream (marked on Van de Velde’s Map as Wady Milleh, but as Wady en- Nebra the specimen of the Ordnance Survey in the Pal. Explor. Quarterly for Jan. 1875) which enters the Mediterranean a little south of Athlit. The sand there is white and glistening, and this, combined with the turbid character of a mountain stream agrees well with the name.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Shihor-libnath (2)
Both Tristram (Bible Places, page 289) and Conder (Tent Work, 2:339) identify this stream with the Wady esh-Shagur, which comes down the mountains east of Acre, and by its junction with Wady Shulb forms the Wady ei-Halzfn, that runs into the Nahr Numein, or Belus. This, however, is at least fourteen miles north-east of Carmel, and more than twenty from the south-west extremity of Asher.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Shihor-Libnath
black-white, a stream on the borders of Asher, probably the modern Nahr Zerka, i.e., the “crocodile brook,” or “blue river”, which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean a little to the north of Caesarea (Josh. 19:26). Crocodiles are still found in the Zerka. Thomson suspects “that long ages ago some Egyptians, accustomed to worship this ugly creature, settled here (viz., at Caesarea), and brought their gods with them. Once here they would not easily be exterminated” (The Land and the Book).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Shihor Libnath
Jos 19:26. A boundary of Asher. “Shihor” is not confined to the Nile exclusively. Not the Belus or glass river (Ptiny H. N. 5:19), now nahr Naman, which flows into the Mediterranean below Acre or Accho, for this is too far N. It must be S. of Carmel where Asher was bounded by Manasseh (Jos 17:10), S. of Dor. Keil conjectures the nahr Zerka, three hours S. of Dor, Pliny’s “crocodile river”; its name “blue” may answer both to Shihor “black” and Libnath “white.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Shihor-Libnath
SHIHOR-LIBNATH.One of the boundaries of Asher (Jos 19:26). It stands apparently for a river, most probably the Nahr ez-Zerka, the Crocodile River.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Shihor-Libnath
shhor-libnath ( , shhor libhnath; Codex Vaticanus , to Seion ka Labanath; Codex Alexandrinus ., Seior, etc.): A place named on the boundary of Asher (Jos 19:26). It seems to mark with Carmel the western limit, and may have been on the South of that mountain. Peshitta, Syriac, and Eusebius (Onomasticon) take this as two distinct names attaching to cities in this region. So far, however, no trace of either name has been found in the course of very careful exploration. More probably Shihor was the name of a river, Libnath distinguishing it from the Nile, which was called Shihor of Egypt. It may have been called Shihor because, like the Nile, it contained crocodiles. The boundary of Asher included Dor (Tanturah), so the river may be sought South of that town. Crocodiles are said still to be found in the Kishon; but this river runs North of Carmel. The Crocodeilon of Ptolemy (V. xv. 5; xvi. 2) and Pliny (v. 19), which the latter makes the southern boundary of Phoenicia, may possibly be Nahr ez-Zerka, which enters the sea about 5 miles South of Tanturah. Here also it is said the crocodile is sometimes seen. Perhaps therefore we may identify this stream with Shihor-libnath.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Shihor-Libnath
H7884
A place on the border of Asher.
Jos 19:26