Ahava - water, the river (
Ezra 8:21) by the banks of which the Jewish
exiles assembled under
Ezra when about to return to
Jerusalem
from Babylon. In all probability this was one of the streams of
Mesopotamia which flowed into the
Euphrates somewhere in the
north-west of Babylonia. It has, however, been supposed to be
the name of a place (
Ezra 8:15) now called Hit, on the
Euphrates, east of Damascus.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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