(rapid), one of the rivers of Eden, the river which “goeth eastward to Assyria” (Genesis 2:14), and which Daniel calls “the great river” (Daniel 10:4), seems to have been rightly identified by the LXX with the Tigris. Dekel is clearly an equivalent of Digla or Dighath, a name borne by the Tigris in all ages. The name now in use among the inhabitants of Mesopotamia is Dijleh.