Geographic Border Locations:

Shihor

    The Shihor, sometimes spelled Sihor, is a river, stream or canal on the border between Egypt and Canaan.  The word means "black" or "dark".  Although it is thought by some to refer to a branch of the Nile River, Egypt considered the Shihor to be on it's border.  It is included in this study of the Borders of Israel because it seems to be used as a name for the Brook of Egypt.  Below is every occurrence of the word Shihor in the Bible, including the reference in Joshua 19:26 where it's part of a compound name referring to a different place in the north of Israel.

Jsh 13:2,3
2 “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;  
3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,

Jsh 19:26
Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor Libnath.*

1Chr 13:5
So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor (the brook) of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.*

Is 23:3
On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

Jr 2:18
Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

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