“Aram” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(high). (1) Translated Mesopotamia (Gen. 24:10). The high part of Syria to the N. E. of Palestine. Absorbed by Syria, with capital at Damascus (1 Kings 20:1; Isa. 7:8; 1 Kings 11:24). (2) A descendant of Nahor (Gen. 22:21). (3) An Asherite (1 Chron. 7:34). (4) An ancestor of Christ (Matt. 1:4; Luke 3:33).
“River” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(banked). In Hebrew sense, a large flowing stream, rivulet, ravine, valley, or wady. “River of Egypt” is the Nile (Gen. 15:18; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4,47; 1 Kings 8:65; 2 Kings 24:7). “The river” is the Euphrates (Gen. 31:21; Ex. 23:31).
“Aram-naharaim” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(highlands of two rivers) (Psa. 60 title).
“Aram” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
This is the name of a large district lying north of Arabia, north-east of Palestine, east of Phenicia, south of the Taurus range, and west of the Tigris. It is generally supposed that the name points to the district as the “Highlands,” though it may be from Aram the son of Shem, as above. The word occurs once untranslated in Numbers 23:7, as “Aram” simply, from whence Balaam was brought, “out of the mountains of the east”; but it is mostly translated Syria or Syrian. Thus we have —
1. ARAM-DAMMESEK (2 Sam. 8:5), translated “Syrians of Damascus,” embracing the highlands of Damascus including the city.
2. ARAM-MAACHAH (1 Chron. 19:6), translated “Syria-maachah,” a district on the east of Argob and Bashan.
3. ARAM-BETH-REHOB (2 Sam. 10:6), translated “Syrians of Beth-rehob” (compare Judg. 18:28), a district in the north, near Dan.
4. ARAM-ZOBAH (2 Sam. 10:6,8), translated “Syrians of Zoba,” a district between Hamath and Damascus, but not definitely recognized.
5. ARAM-NAHARAIM signifying “Aram of two rivers” (Gen. 24:10; Deut. 23:4; Judg. 3:8; 1 Chron. 19:6), translated “Mesopotamia.” The two rivers are the Euphrates and the Tigris. The district would be the highlands from whence the rivers issue to the plain, and the district between the two rivers without extending to the far south.
“River” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
The three principal rivers referred to in scripture are the Nile, the Jordan, and the Euphrates. The word employed for the Nile is yeor, “a fosse or channel”; for the Jordan and the Euphrates the word used is nahar, “a river” always supplied with water. The other streams in Palestine, though called “rivers,” as the Arnon, are torrents running in valleys; for the most part they have water only in the winter, and are then often impassable: these are described by the word nachal. For the symbolical river that Ezekiel saw issuing from the house this latter word is used (Ezekiel 47:5-12).
God will make His people drink of the river of His pleasures (Psa. 36:8); here the word is nachal. In Psalm 46:4 it is nahar. “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God.” It will never run dry.
Nile—Luxor
Ford of the Zarqa – Jordan River
Euphrates River – Hilla
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
from 5102; a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity