Cherith means a cutting, separation, gorge, torrent-bed, or winter-stream, is a valley or stream. Cherith is taken from the Bible. There is a passage in the Bible, 1 Kings 17: 2-7, the story of the prophet Elijah, where he is fed by the ravens next to the brook. The brook Cherith is only mentioned twice in the Bible and that in 1 Kings 17:3 and 5.
Cherith was the name of the stream that kept Elijah alive during the three years' drought which he announced to King Ahab. Instantly the word of the Lord came to him and he was told to flee to Cherith and hide there. The promise God gave him was that he would be provided for there.
The Brook of Cherith was situated east of the Jordan. It flowed through the land which was allotted to the tribe of Gad.
Today this wadi or brook is in the east of the Jordan River, the modern wadi Qilt south of Jericho.
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