TORRENTE D'EGITTO (Hebr. náhal Miṣrájm). — Southern frontier of the land of Canaan (Num. 34:5), of the tribe of Judah (Jos. 15:4–7), and of the Solomonic Kingdom (I Reg. 8:66; II Reg. 24:7).
It most probably corresponds to the Wádi al-'Ariš, a valley that flows into the Mediterranean approximately 80 km south of Gaza, after a course of approximately 250 km. S. Girolamo,
following the Septuagint, writes concerning Is. 27:12: « pro torrente Aegypti LXX Rhinocoruram transtulerunt; quod est oppidum in Aegypti Palestinaeque confinio » (PL 24, 33). The city 'Ρενοχορόρα was the first one east of Egypt; its torrent, today the Wádi el-'Ariš, was therefore called the Torrent of Egypt, also by the Assyrians (nahal Musri).
BIBL.: A. Mallon, Les Hébreux en Egypte, Rome 1921, p. 103. Donato Baldi