Cherith
    a cutting; separation; a gorge, a torrent-bed or winter-stream,
    a "brook," in whose banks the prophet Elijah hid himself during
    the early part of the three years' drought (1 Kings 17:3, 5). It
    has by some been identified as the Wady el-Kelt behind Jericho,
    which is formed by the junction of many streams flowing from the
    mountains west of Jericho. It is dry in summer. Travellers have
    described it as one of the wildest ravines of this wild region,
    and peculiarly fitted to afford a secure asylum to the
    persecuted. But if the prophet's interview with Ahab was in
    Samaria, and he thence journeyed toward the east, it is probable
    that he crossed Jordan and found refuge in some of the ravines
    of Gilead. The "brook" is said to have been "before Jordan,"
    which probably means that it opened toward that river, into
    which it flowed. This description would apply to the east as
    well as to the west of Jordan. Thus Elijah's hiding-place may
    have been the Jermuk, in the territory of the half-tribe of
    Manasseh.



 Cherith, cutting; piercing; slaying