Euphrates
pe.rat is the named river marking borders, travel, conflict sites, and actions in the prophetic account.
The noun proper names a particular river: it marks the extent of promised or assigned territory, locates military and political events, and identifies the destination or setting of specific actions in Jeremiah.
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The named river in geographical settings · dominant
All supplied tokens are tagged Noun · Proper and identify the same river in differing clauses. In Genesis 15:18 the APB renders it as the far boundary of land given to Abram's seed; in Joshua 1:4 it marks a border, while in 2 Samuel 8:3 and Jeremiah 46:2 it locates military activity. In Jeremiah 13:4 the APB renders a command to go there and hide a girdle, and Jeremiah 51:63 places the casting of a weighted scroll into its midst.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the name as “the River Euphrates” or “the Euphrates.” In Genesis 2:14 it calls it “the fourth river”; these are translation renderings of whole clauses.