You are strongly recommended to add to your library the excellent revised edition of Harper's Bible Dictionary titled, The Harper Collins Bible Dictionary, Revised Edition [book review], edited by Paul J. Achtemeier, with the Society of Biblical Literature (NY: Harper Collins, 1996). It is currently the best one-volume Bible dictionary in English, and it is available at Border's Books, Christian Science Reading Rooms, http://www.borders.com, or http://www.christianbook.com.

Pishon, one of the rivers in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:11), but a minor one in the company of the Tigris and the Euphrates. There is no scholarly agreement on whether the reference in Genesis is to a river, or to a larger body of water, such as the Persian Gulf.