EGYPT, RIVER OF (e'jipt rfv"er), occurs re peatedly in A. V. (Num. xxxiv:5; Josh. xv:47; Kings viii:65; 2 Kings xxiv:7; 2 Chron. vii:8; Is. xxvn:12).
It is not the Nile but the Wady cl-'Arfsh, which flows through the northern portion of the Sinaitic peninsula, draining into itself the waters of many other wadies. and flows into the Mediterranean midway between Pelusium and Gaza (Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, 348). It derives its name from the village el-' Arish (the ancient Rliinoco lura, Diodor. i :(o), situated near its mouth. (J. A Selbie, Hastings' Bib. Diet ) EHI (e'111), (Heb. ay-khee', brotherly, brother, f, e., friend of Jehovah), head of one of the houses of Benjamin according to Gen. xlvi:21.
lIe seems to be the same as Ahiram of Num. xxvi :38. If they ate identical Ahiram is probably right as the family were called Ahiramltes. The same name seems to have the form, Aharah ( Chron. Ahoah (1 Chron. viii :4), Ahiah (t Chron. viii :7), Aher (I Chron. vii :12). These variations seem to indicate the effacement of the original copies by time or injury.
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1. Son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the 'Judges' of Israel, or rather of that part of Is rael which he delivered from the dominion of the Moabites by the assassination of their king Eglon.
These were the tribes beyond the Jordan and 37 the southern tribes on this side the river. Ehtid obtained access to Eglon as the hearer of tribute from the subjugated tribes, and being left-handed, or rather ambidextrous, he was enabled to use with a sure and fatal aim a dagger concealed under a part of his dress, where it was unsuspect ed, because it would there have been useless to a person employing his right hand. The Israelites continued to enjoy for eighty years the independ ence obtained through this deed of Ehud (Judg. iii :15-30).
2. Son of Bilhan, the son of Benjamin, the Patriarch (1 Chron. vii :to, viii :6). (B. C. before 1856).
EKER (e'ker), (Hob. ay'ker, transplanted, foreigner, Lev. xxv:47). a rooting up, perhaps one transplanted, a foreigner, a descendant of Judah through the families of Jerahmeel and Hezron (1 Chron. ii:. 71, B. C. after 1856.