For details of the interesting descriptive supplements of the names Pishon, Gihon, and Hiddekel, on which there is much difference of opinion, it must suffice to refer to the _Encyclopaedia Biblica_ and Hasting's _Dictionary of the Bible_. We must, however, mention a widely held explanation of the name _Eden_. Plausible as it is to interpret this name as "delight"--indeed, the Septuagint translates in Gen. iii. 23 f. [Greek: ho paradeisos tês tryphês]--this cannot have been the original meaning. Hence Delitzsch (_Wo lag das Paradies?_ p. 79) suggested that "Eden" might be a Hebraized form of the Babylonian _edinu_, "field, plain, desert." But whereas Delitzsch takes "Eden" to be the entire plain of Babylonia, Hommel thinks that it is rather the plain about the sacred city of Eridu. It is the latter scholar to whom the "Arabian theory" of Paradise in its best-known form is due. The rivers (apart from Perath, "Euphrates") he locates in northern and central Arabia, the "Cush" and "Asshur" of Genesis being, according to him, central Arabia and Edom respectively (_Ancient Hebrew Traditions_, pp. 314-316; _Aufsätze u. Abhandlungen_, iii. 281-284, 335-339). These rivers, in short, become Arabian wadis, on which see Hast. _D.B._ i. 132a (foot). Cheyne, on the other hand, rejects the Babylonian explanation of Eden as = "field, plain," on the ground that "Eden" was originally regarded as a mountainous tract. See further Driver, _Book of Genesis_ (1904), pp. 57-60; _Ency. Bib._ "Paradise"; and the commentaries of Gunkel (2nd ed., 1902), and Cheyne (1907). (T. K. C.) FOOTNOTE: [1] _Wo lag das Paradies?_ p. 66. A Sumerian name of Babylon was Tin-ter, "dwelling of life." Cf. Babilu, Babili, "gate of God." EDENBRIDGE, a market town in the south-western parliamentary division of Kent, England, 26 m. S.S.E. of London, on the South-Eastern & Chatham, and the London, Brighton & South Coast railways. Pop. (1901) 2546. It is pleasantly situated on the river Eden, an affluent of the Medway, in a valley between the Ragstone Hills and the Forest Ridges. The church of St Peter and St Paul is principally Perpendicular. The town, which has considerable agricultural trade, possesses a chalybeate spring, but this is little used. Two miles from the town is Hever Castle, a beautiful moated mansion dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, but occupying the site of an earlier structure. This was rebuilt by Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, whose grandson, Sir Thomas, was father of Anne, second wife of Henry VIII., who here spent much of her life before her marriage, and was visited several times by the king. There is a chapel of her family in the fine parish church of Hever. Not far distant is the modern Chiddingstone Castle, on an ancient site. A block of sandstone in the park is called the "chiding stone," tradition asserting it to be a prehistoric seat of judgment.