Shihor, Sihor

A stream in Egypt. Joshua 13:3 refers to Sihor "which is east of Egypt" as the southern border of the land of Canaan, and in I Chronicles 13:5 the extremities of David's kingdom run "from Shihor in Egypt to as far as the entrance of Hamath". In Isaiah 23:3 the Sihor is paralleled with "the River" (the Nile) and in Jeremiah 2:18 the waters of Sihor symbolize Egypt.

Egyptian monuments apply the name Shihor to lakes in the eastern Delta and also to Lake Fayum, while a topographical list of the Hellenistic period uses the term for the Pelusiac arm of the Nile. It thus seems that Shihor was a common Egyptian name for streams and bodies of water.