Pharpar
Pharpar is a biblical river in Syria. It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the Book of Kings, now generally identified with the Nahr al-Awaj, also called Awaj, although if the reference to Damascus is limited to the city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be the modern Taura.Pharpar
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Syria
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Rif-dimashq Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Pharpar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر فرفر”
- Asturian: “Ríu Pharpar”
- Cebuano: “Nahr Barbar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر فرفر”
- French: “Nahr Barbar”
- German: “Parpar”
- Hebrew: “נהר פרפר”
- Hebrew: “פרפר”
- Indonesian: “Parpar”
- Irish: “Pharpar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Parpar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Parpar”
- Norwegian: “Parpar”
- Swedish: “Nahr Barbar”
- Swedish: “Parpar”
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