Pharpar

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pharpar
     swift, one of the rivers of Damascus (2 Kings 5:12). It has been
     identified with the 'Awaj, "a small lively river." The whole of
     the district watered by the 'Awaj is called the Wady el-'Ajam,
     i.e., "the valley of the Persians", so called for some unknown
     reason. This river empties itself into the lake or marsh Bahret


     Hijaneh, on the east of Damascus. One of its branches bears the
     modern name of Wady Barbar, which is probably a corruption of
     Pharpar.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Pharpar, that produces fruit