Genesis 2:14 names it as one of the four rivers of Eden, the river which flows eastwards out of Ashur (Ashur is an anachronism; it should presumably be Aram). Since the Euphrates is mentioned in the same verse, as the other river flowing eastwards out of Ashur, the reference is logically to the Tigris.
And indeed, the various online scholarly sites tell me that it was probably Idikla in Akkadian; that it has "been known throughout history" as Dighath; that in Aramaic the river Digla, or Dighath, is known to be the Tigris (does this then make the name a variant of Diklah?); that Yehudit has simply added a Chet (ח). But none of these sites lists a single evidentiary source, and seem simply to be cutting and pasting from each other. I can find no evidence anywhere to support these claims; which may well be correct, of course.
For more, try here.
Or for something rather more unusual to explain the illustration on this page, try here - and who knows, there may even be the tiniest gram of possibility in this complex metaphor of the ventricles of the heart.
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