. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Map of the Countries watered by the Euphrates and Tigris, corrected from the Map in Cassellfl Bible Dictionary. ekins. Boats of this kind, called kufas, still aboundon the river. The disadvantage of the route was. Kufa, or circular boat of wicker-work, used on the Euphrates.—From —(Rawlinsons Herodotus, L 260.) the difficulty of conveying return cargoes againstthe current. But probably throughout the Babylo- nian and Persian periods this route was made use ofby the merchants of various nations, and by it theEast and West continually inter
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Map of the Countries watered by the Euphrates and Tigris, corrected from the Map in Cassellfl Bible Dictionary. ekins. Boats of this kind, called kufas, still aboundon the river. The disadvantage of the route was. Kufa, or circular boat of wicker-work, used on the Euphrates.—From —(Rawlinsons Herodotus, L 260.) the difficulty of conveying return cargoes againstthe current. But probably throughout the Babylo- nian and Persian periods this route was made use ofby the merchants of various nations, and by it theEast and West continually interchanged their mostimportant products. The Euphrates is first men-tioned in Scripture as one of the four rivers ofEden 1 (Gen. ii. 14); next in the covenant madewith Abraham (xv. 18), where the whole country, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, theriver Euphrates, is promised to the chosen race(Deut. i. 1, xi. 24 ; Josh. i. 4). From 1 Chr. v. 9 itappears that the tribe of Reuben did actually extenditself to the Euphrates in the times anterior to the reigns of David and Solomon the do-minion of Israel actually attained to the full extentboth ways of the original promise, the Euphratesforming the boundary of their empire to th
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