Hiddekel
(rapid), one of the rivers of Eden, the river which "goeth eastward to Assyria," Ge 2:14 and which Daniel calls "the great river," Da 10:4 seems to have been rightly identified by the LXX. with the Tigris. Dekel is clearly an equivalent of Digla or Dighath, a name borne by the Tigris in all ages. The name now in use among the inhabitants of Mesopotamia is Dijleh.
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