Wadi Feiran


Wadi Feiran or Wadi Faran is Sinai's largest and widest wadi. It is an intermittent stream and rises from the mountains around Saint Catherine's Monastery, at 2500 m above sea level.[1]

WEBSTER(1830) 2.210 Wadi Feiran
WEBSTER(1830) 2.210 Wadi Feiran






It is one of the alleged sites of Rephidim, a station of the Exodus where Moses struck a rock caused it to spring water, allowing his people the Hebrews to drink.[2]

Wadi Feiran is an 81-mile (130 km) wadi on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Its upper reaches, around Jebel Musa, are known as the Wadi el-Sheikh.[3] It empties into the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Abu Zenima.[1] Ptolemy identified the area as the site of Paran.[4] The nearby hill is the Tell Feiran.

  1. ^ a b Zahran, M.A.; Willis, A.J. (March 14, 2013). The Vegetation of Egypt. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 285. ISBN 9789401580663. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  2. ^ Berrett & al. (1996), p. 315.
  3. ^ Berrett & al. (1996), p. 315–16.
  4. ^ Berrett & al. (1996), p. 316.