PI-HAHIROTH. The Hebrews departing from Succoth, came to Etham.1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Speak unto the Children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the Sea, over against Baal-zephon, before it shall ye encamp by the Sea. The Word Pi-hahiroth may be explain’d by The Pass of Hiroth, or The Mouth of Hiroth. Moses in the Book of Numbers, calls it simply Hiroth,2 and Eusebius, as also St. Jerome, in his Book of Hebrew Places, calls it in the same manner. Others translate it, Over-against the Ditches. Ita Syr.The Seventy in Exodus xiv. 2. translate, Over against the Village; others, over-against the Pass of Liberty, or the Pass of Drought. Rab. Salom. Fag.We think Hiroth to be the same as the City Heroum, or Heroopolis, situated at the Extremity or the Point of the Red Sea, or else Strab. Plin. alii.the City of Phagroriopolis, placed by3 Strab. l. 17.Strabo about the same Place, and the Capital of the Canton of Phagroriopolitis. There is great Probability that Pi-habiroth stands for the Pass which was near Heroum. ‘Twas beyond this Pass that the Hebrews went to encamp upon the Red Sea.
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