Home/Biblical Encyclopedia/B/Brook Cherith

Brook Cherith Chorrath

Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia

(1 Kings 17:3–7)—the wadi east of the Jordan beside which Elijah hid after announcing drought to King Ahab. Ravens brought him bread and meat morning and evening, and he drank from the brook. When it dried up, the word of the LORD sent him to the widow of Zarephath, whose flour and oil were preserved through the famine. The brook’s exact location is uncertain.

Scripture cited

3 Kingdoms 17:3

Related entries

Elijah (my God is my strength, or God is the Lord), the Tishbite, from the Gileadite village of Tishbe in the tribe…
Gilead (hill, witness) (Gen. 31:47; 2 Kings 10:33) — thus is called the mountainous country beyond the Jordan, from…
Jonah the Prophet (2 Kgs 14:25; Matt 12:39; Luke 11:29-30) - a Hebrew prophet who evidently lived during the reign of Jeroboam…
Meat of animals (Gen. 1:29, 2:16). In the first period after the creation of the world, it was not permitted to man to eat…
Old Testament Miracles —among the many wonders narrated in the Old Testament, the source lists examples accomplished directly by…
The raven (Gen. 8:7) — a bird of the predatory kind, which, according to the Law of Moses, as feeding on carcasses, is…
Thisbe (“elevated place”) (Tob. 1:2)—the home of Tobit, described as lying south of Kedesh-naphtali in Galilee,…
Tishbite (1 Kings 17:1; 21:17; 2 Kings 1:3)—the designation of the prophet Elijah, most naturally meaning that he came…
Zarephath (Luke 4:26; 1 Kings 17:9)—a Gentile city of Phoenicia on the Mediterranean coast between Tyre and Sidon,…

Search the whole Encyclopedia All 4,575 entries, searchable, with every entry linked to the verses it explains.