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English Dictionary: Euphrates by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Euphrates
n
  1. a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia
    Synonym(s): Euphrates, Euphrates River
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Euphrates
      Hebrew, Perath; Assyrian, Purat; Persian cuneiform, Ufratush,
      whence Greek Euphrates, meaning "sweet water." The Assyrian name
      means "the stream," or "the great stream." It is generally
      called in the Bible simply "the river" (Ex. 23:31), or "the
      great river" (Deut. 1:7).
     
         The Euphrates is first mentioned in Gen. 2:14 as one of the
      rivers of Paradise. It is next mentioned in connection with the
      covenant which God entered into with Abraham (15:18), when he
      promised to his descendants the land from the river of Egypt to
      the river Euphrates (comp. Deut. 11:24; Josh. 1:4), a covenant
      promise afterwards fulfilled in the extended conquests of David
      (2 Sam. 8:2-14; 1 Chr. 18:3; 1 Kings 4:24). It was then the
      boundary of the kingdom to the north-east. In the ancient
      history of Assyria, and Babylon, and Egypt many events are
      recorded in which mention is made of the "great river." Just as
      the Nile represented in prophecy the power of Egypt, so the
      Euphrates represented the Assyrian power (Isa. 8:7; Jer. 2:18).
     
         It is by far the largest and most important of all the rivers
      of Western Asia. From its source in the Armenian mountains to
      the Persian Gulf, into which it empties itself, it has a course
      of about 1,700 miles. It has two sources, (1) the Frat or
      Kara-su (i.e., "the black river"), which rises 25 miles
      north-east of Erzeroum; and (2) the Muradchai (i.e., "the river
      of desire"), which rises near Ararat, on the northern slope of
      Ala-tagh. At Kebban Maden, 400 miles from the source of the
      former, and 270 from that of the latter, they meet and form the
      majestic stream, which is at length joined by the Tigris at
      Koornah, after which it is called Shat-el-Arab, which runs in a
      deep and broad stream for above 140 miles to the sea. It is
      estimated that the alluvium brought down by these rivers
      encroaches on the sea at the rate of about one mile in thirty
      years.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Euphrates, that makes fruitful
  
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