Shihor

Shihor (meaning: dark or turbid, referring to the dark waters of the Nile) designates the southwestern boundary of the land of Canaan as given to Israel. In 1 Chronicles 13:5, David assembles all Israel from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hamath — from the southernmost to the northernmost extent of the promised land. Joshua 13:3 similarly mentions Shihor as lying before Egypt, east of the Nile Delta.

Most scholars identify Shihor with the Wadi el-Arish (the Brook of Egypt), the natural boundary between Canaan and Egypt in the northern Sinai, though some identify it with the easternmost branch of the Nile Delta (the Pelusiac branch). Isaiah 23:3 refers to the Shihor as a source of grain harvested and transported on the Nile to the trading markets of Tyre, which would suggest the Egyptian Nile itself. The two uses may reflect different periods of usage or different geographical references within the general Egypt-Canaan border region.