Pi-hahiroth

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pi-hahiroth
     place where the reeds grow (LXX. and Copt. read "farmstead"),
     the name of a place in Egypt where the children of Israel
     encamped (Ex. 14:2, 9), how long is uncertain. Some have
     identified it with Ajrud, a fortress between Etham and Suez. The
     condition of the Isthmus of Suez at the time of the Exodus is


     not exactly known, and hence this, with the other places
     mentioned as encampments of Israel in Egypt, cannot be
     definitely ascertained. The isthmus has been formed by the Nile
     deposits. This increase of deposit still goes on, and so rapidly
     that within the last fifty years the mouth of the Nile has
     advanced northward about four geographical miles. In the maps of
     Ptolemy (of the second and third centuries A.D.) the mouths of
     the Nile are forty miles further south than at present. (See {EXODUS}.)
     

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

  Pi-hahiroth, the mouth; the pass of Hiroth