Brook of the Willows
Description
WILLOWS, THE BROOK OF THE
Evidently mentioned as the boundary of Moab (Isaiah 15:7 ) and generally identified with the brook Zered.
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Brook
a torrent.
(1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc., Isaiah (Isa 15:7 ) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha.
(2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15 ; Num 34:5 ; Josh 15:4 ; 15:47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num 13:23 ; 1Kings 17:3).
(3.) In (Isa 19:7 ) the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary