SHIHOR in Isa 23:3; Jer 2:18 seems to mean Egypt (?), the Nile (?), or the waters of Egypt: in 1Ch 13:5; Jos 13:3, it is the S. W. frontier of Canaan. If the name is Hebrew it may mean 'the Black,' in allusion to the dark waters or even to the black alluvial land itself: the Egyp. name of Egypt is Kemi, meaning 'black.' But, as Brugsch pointed out, Shi-H
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,
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.
On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
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?