Zerka

This river is now called the Zerka, or blue river.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Jabbok, now called Zerka, beyond which the country is surrendered to the wild Bedawîn.

History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838

If, as Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living" Moreno's psychodramatist wife Zerka says that ......... "the unlived life, is not worth examining!"

Dr. Tian Dayton: When Adults Play 2010

If, as Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living" Moreno's psychodramatist wife Zerka says that......... "the unlived life, is not worth examining!"

Dr. Tian Dayton: When Adults Play Dr. Tian Dayton 2010

If, as Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living" Moreno's psychodramatist wife Zerka says that ......... "the unlived life, is not worth examining!"

Dr. Tian Dayton: When Adults Play 2010

I joined their caravan; after eight hours march, we descended into the valley of the Jordan, called El Ghor, near Bysan (Scythopolis); crossed the river, and continued along its verdant banks for about ten hours, until we reached the river Zerka (Jabbok), near the place where it empties itself into the Jordan.

Travels in Nubia 2004

Still descended, till on a sudden turn of the road came the rushing of the _Zerka_, or Jabbok, water upon our ears, with a breeze sighing among juniper-bushes, and enormous and gorgeous oleanders, together with the soft zephyr feeling from the stream upon our heated faces -- oh, so inexpressibly delicious!

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

Zerka, which we were to meet afterwards, after its course hence N.E. and then N.W. I feasted a dozen Arabs at my tent-door.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

We now had one long and continued descent to the river Zerka.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

The Jabbok is the Wady-ez-Zerka, as almost all commentators agree -- ez-Zerka signifying "the blue" i.e. the clear mountain stream.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942