Pharpar (or Pharphar in the Douay–Rheims Bible) is a biblical river in Syria. It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the Book of Kings (2 Kings 5:12), now generally identified with the A‘waj (literally, 'crooked'), although if the reference to Damascus is limited to the city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be the modern Taura.[1] In the early Baedeker Guides it was identified as the Al-Sabirani, a fairly downstream tributary of the A`waj. The stream runs from west to east, flowing from Hermon south of Damascus, and like its companion Abana River travels across the plain of Damascus, which owes to them much of its fertility. The river loses itself in marshes, or Lakes of the Marj, as they are called, on the borders of the great Arabian Desert.[1]
John MacGregor, who gives a description of it in his book Rob Roy on the Jordan, affirmed that as a work of hydraulic engineering, the system and construction of the canals, by which the Pharpar and Abana were used for irrigation, might be considered as one of the most complete and extensive in the world.[1] In the Bible, Naaman exclaims that the Abana and Pharpar are greater than all the waters of Israel (2 Kings 5:12).
^ abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Abana and Pharpar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 6.
Pharpar (or Pharphar in the Douay–Rheims Bible) is a biblical river in Syria. It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the...
engineering, the system and construction of the canals, by which the Abana and Pharpar were used for irrigation, might be considered as one of the most complete...
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Bahrat Square Umayyad Square Yusuf al-Azma Square Nature Barada River Pharpar River Mount Qasioun Salera Hill Ghouta Sport Municipal districts Old Damascus...
away slaves but powerless about his disease. "Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I...
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according to 2 Kings 5:12, was one of the "rivers of Damascus", along with the Pharpar river. Abdon was a Levitical city in Asher allocated to the Gershonites...
Bahrat Square Umayyad Square Yusuf al-Azma Square Nature Barada River Pharpar River Mount Qasioun Salera Hill Ghouta Sport Municipal districts Old Damascus...
Bahrat Square Umayyad Square Yusuf al-Azma Square Nature Barada River Pharpar River Mount Qasioun Salera Hill Ghouta Sport Municipal districts Old Damascus...
southeast, and Hader to the southwest. The Nahr al-Awaj river (ancient Pharpar) passes near the town. Beit Jinn was visited by Andalusian geographer Ibn...
the Pharpar is in "sharp contrast" to the "brown rocky" and "desert-sand" country. Dinning writes, on approach "you skirt the stream of the Pharpar 10...
Bahrat Square Umayyad Square Yusuf al-Azma Square Nature Barada River Pharpar River Mount Qasioun Salera Hill Ghouta Sport Municipal districts Old Damascus...
God, and wave his hands over Naaman. Naaman asked whether the Amanah and Pharpar rivers of Damascus were not better than any river in Israel, so that he...
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