יַרְדֵּן
Jordan
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Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3383 appears in the Book of Joshua — 58 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua
- Joshua 1:2 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֣ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 1:11 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֣ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Joshua 1:14 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
- Joshua 1:15 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper until Yahweh have given your brothers rest, as [he has given] you, and they also have possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them: then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 2:7 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן ptcl def.art + n Proper The men pursued after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
- Joshua 2:10 הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ ptcl def.art + n Proper For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
- Joshua 3:1 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.
- Joshua 3:8 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן בַּ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper prep det + n Proper You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.
- Joshua 3:11 בַּ/יַּרְדֵּֽן prep det + n Proper Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
- Joshua 3:13 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.
- Joshua 3:14 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper It happened, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people;
- Joshua 3:15 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן וְ/הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֗ן ptcl def.art + n Proper conj + ptcl def.art + n Proper and when those who bore the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
- Joshua 3:17 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:1 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper It happened, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
- Joshua 4:3 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֗ן ptcl def.art + n Proper and command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night.
- Joshua 4:5 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
- Joshua 4:7 הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ בַּ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper prep det + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper then you shall tell them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.
- Joshua 4:8 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֗ן ptcl def.art + n Proper The children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
- Joshua 4:9 הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֒ ptcl def.art + n Proper Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.
- Joshua 4:10 הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֒ ptcl def.art + n Proper For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.
- Joshua 4:16 הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:17 הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:18 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
- Joshua 4:19 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן ptcl def.art + n Proper The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
- Joshua 4:20 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
- Joshua 4:22 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
- Joshua 4:23 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֛ן ptcl def.art + n Proper For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over;
- Joshua 5:1 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֜ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֛ן ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 7:7 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
- Joshua 9:1 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֜ן ptcl def.art + n Proper It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;
- Joshua 9:10 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
- Joshua 12:1 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
- Joshua 12:7 הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ ptcl def.art + n Proper These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
- Joshua 13:8 הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ ptcl def.art + n Proper With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
- Joshua 13:23 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper The border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border [of it]. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages of it.
- Joshua 13:27 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper and in the valley, Beth Haram, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border [of it], to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
- Joshua 13:32 לְ/יַרְדֵּ֥ן prep + n Proper These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
- Joshua 14:3 לַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן prep det + n Proper For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
- Joshua 15:5 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;
- Joshua 16:1 מִ/יַּרְדֵּ֣ן prep + n Proper The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Bethel;
- Joshua 16:7 הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
- Joshua 17:5 לַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן prep det + n Proper There fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
- Joshua 18:7 לַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ prep det + n Proper For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.
- Joshua 18:12 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
- Joshua 18:19 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper and the border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.
- Joshua 18:20 וְ/הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֥ן conj + ptcl def.art + n Proper The Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders of it round about, according to their families.
- Joshua 19:22 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן ptcl def.art + n Proper and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:33 הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakkum; and the goings out of it were at the Jordan;
- Joshua 19:34 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper and the border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 20:8 לְ/יַרְדֵּ֤ן prep + n Proper Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 22:4 הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן ptcl def.art + n Proper Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them: therefore now turn you, and get you to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- Joshua 22:7 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [inheritance] in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward; moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
- Joshua 22:10 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן ptcl def.art + n Proper ptcl def.art + n Proper When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look on.
- Joshua 22:11 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן ptcl def.art + n Proper The children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:25 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן ptcl def.art + n Proper for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
- Joshua 23:4 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֗ן ptcl def.art + n Proper Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.
- Joshua 24:8 הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן ptcl def.art + n Proper I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
- Joshua 24:11 הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֮ ptcl def.art + n Proper You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
About this entry
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The Hebrew name ירדן centers on the idea of “Jordan.” Debuting at Genesis 13:10, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 164 verses in 17 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Joshua dominates its distribution — 58 of 164 verses. Dig into 164-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3383 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 164
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 164 distinct verses.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #255
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 255 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 164 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 58 verses 35%
- Deuteronomy 26 verses 16%
- Numbers 20 verses 12%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 164 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 103 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 51 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Jordan 172×, Over jordan 2×
- American Standard Version: Jordan 154×, Over the jordan 2×, Ye pass over the jordan 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jordan 166×, Near the jordan 3×, Along the jordan 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jordan 176×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3383 across 182 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3383 across 181 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3383 across 177 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3383 across 180 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Jordan = "descender"
- the river of Palestine running from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the Dead Sea a distance of approx 200 miles (320…
Word origin
n.pr.fl. Jordan (according to Rel Ol§ 215 c, from ירד with ֵן for orig. ַן, cf. 𝔊 ὁ Ιορδανης; = river as flowing downward, descending, then of particular stream as river κατʼ ἐξοχήν. See also Sta§ 294e (ֵן for ֶן, but name according to Sta non-Hebr.))—abs. always הַיַּר׳ in prose Gn 13:10 + 162 times; c. ה loc. הַיַּרְדֵּ֫נָה Ju 8:4 + 3 times; יַרְדֵּן only ψ 42:7 Jb 40:23; cstr. יַרְדֵּן Nu 26:3 + 11 times Nu Jos + 1 Ch 6:63;—the river of Palestine: in all periods, chiefly Hex (122 times: Gn 5 times J; Nu 20 times P, 1 times JE; Dt 26 times; Jos 24 times JE, 20 times D, 16 times P), Ju (12 times), and S (18 times); in K 13 times; Ch 7 times; elsewhere 10 times;—הַיַּרְדֵּן הַזֶּה Gn 32:11 (J), Dt 3:27; 31:2 Jos 1:2, 11; 4:22 (all D); בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Gn 50:10, 11 (J), Jos 7:7; 24:8 (both JE), + 20 times D + Ju 5:17; 10:8 1 S 31:7; P has also מֵעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Nu 32:19, and מֵע׳ לַיַּרְדֵּן v 19, 32; 35:14 Jos 14:3, also Jos 17:5 (JE), 18:7 (D), Ju 7:25 1 Ch 12:37; 26:30; in P peculiarly יַרְדֵּן יְרֵחוֹ the Jordan of (at) Jericho, with עַל Nu 26:3, 63; 31:12; 33:48, 50; 35:1; 36:13, with מֵעֵבֶר לְ Nu 22:1; 34:15 Jos 13:32; 20:8 (= 1 Ch 6:63), with מִן Jos 16:1 (E?); עֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Is 8:23 Dt 4:49 Jos 13:27 (P); see sub עבר; מֵי הַיַּרְדֵּן Jos 3:13(×2); 4:18, 23 (all JE), 3:8; 5:1 (both D); מֵימֵי הַיַּרְדֵּן 4:7 (JE); גְּאוֹן הַיַּר׳ Je 12:5; 49:19; 50:44 Zc 11:3 (v. גאון p. 145 a, supr.); שְׂפַת הַיּר׳ 2 K 2:13; יוֹשֵׁב עַל־הַיָּם וְעַל יַד הַיַּרְדֵּן Nu 13:29 (JE; elsewhere in Nu, P); כִּכַּר הַיַּרְדֵּן the circle of Jordan, i.e. the plain about Jericho Gn 13:10, 11 (J), 1 K 7:46 2 Ch 4:17; מַעְבְּרוֹת הַיַּר׳ Ju 3:28; 12:5, 6 fords of the Jordan; אֶל־גְּלִילוֹת הַיַּרְדֵּן אֶל־עֵבֶר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל Jos 22:11, cf. v 10 (both P; v. גלילות supr. p. 165); אֶרֶץ יַרְדֵּן ψ 42:7 (without art. only here and in foll.); יָגִיחַ יַרְדֵּן אֶל־פִּיהוּ Jb 40:23 a Jordan bursteth forth into his mouth.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ירד (yârad) (H3381) — to go down.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יַרְדֵּן
- (b. h.) pr. n. Jordan, the river of Palestine. Tosef. Bekh. VII, 4; Bekh. 55ᵃ, v. יֶרַח; a. fr.—Y. Sabb. IV, end, 7ᵃ עריבת הי׳; Bab. Sabb. 83ᵇ ספינת הי׳ Jordan boats which are loaded on dry land and let down into the river.—כיפת הי׳, v. כֵּיפָה.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 37 distinct written forms H3383 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 2:29 | 32 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:1 | 24 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 50:11 | 22 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:5 | 20 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:49 | 14 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 11:30 | 7 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֒ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 12:10 | 7 |
| יַרְדֵּ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 26:3 | 7 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֛ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:26 | 5 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔נָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 2:6 | 3 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֜ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:46 | 3 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 32:10 | 3 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּן֮ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 49:19 | 3 |
| לְ/יַרְדֵּ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 13:32 | 3 |
| לַ/יַּרְדֵּֽן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 17:5 | 3 |
| בַּ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 5:10 | 2 |
| בַּ/יַּרְדֵּֽן | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 19:18 | 2 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:27 | 2 |
| הַ֝/יַּרְדֵּ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 114:3 | 2 |
| לַ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:30 | 2 |
| ב/ירדן | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 19:31 | 1 |
| בַּ/יַּרְדֵּ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 3:8 | 1 |
| בַּ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 5:14 | 1 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑נָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:4 | 1 |
| הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֞ן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:29 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 3:15 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:17 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 18:20 | 1 |
| יַרְדֵּ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 42:6 | 1 |
| יַרְדֵּ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Job 40:23 | 1 |
| לְ/יַרְדֵּ֣ן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:78 | 1 |
| לְ/יַרְדֵּ֤ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 20:8 | 1 |
| לַ/יַּרְדֵּ֑ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 14:3 | 1 |
| לַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 35:14 | 1 |
| לַ/יַּרְדֵּן֙ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 18:7 | 1 |
| לַ֠/יַּרְדֵּן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:37 | 1 |
| מִ/יַּרְדֵּ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 16:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jordan). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Heb. Yarden, "the descender;" Arab. Nahr-esh-Sheriah, "the watering-place" the chief river of Palestine. It flows from north to south down a deep valley in the centre of the country. The name descender is significant of the fact that there is along its whole course a descent to its banks; or it may simply denote the rapidity with which it "descends" to the Dead Sea.
It originates in the snows of Hermon, which feed its perennial fountains. Two sources are generally spoken of. (1.) From the western base of a hill on which once stood the city of Dan, the northern border-city of Palestine, there gushes forth a considerable fountain called the Leddan, which is the largest fountain in Syria and the principal source of the Jordan. (2.) Beside the ruins of Banias, the ancient Caesarea Philippi and the yet more ancient Panium, is a lofty cliff of limestone, at the base of which is a fountain. This is the other source of the Jordan, and has always been regarded by the Jews as its true source. It rushes down to the plain in a foaming torrent, and joins the Leddan about 5 miles south of Dan (Tell-el-Kady). (3.) But besides these two historical fountains there is a third, called the Hasbany, which rises in the bottom of a valley at the western base of Hermon, 12 miles north of Tell-el-Kady. It joins the main stream about a mile below the junction of the Leddan and the Banias. The river thus formed is at this point about 45 feet wide, and flows in a channel from 12 to 20 feet below the plain. After this it flows, "with a swift current and a much-twisted course," through a marshy plain for some 6 miles, when it falls into the Lake Huleh, "the waters of Merom" (q.v.).
During this part of its course the Jordan has descended about 1,100 feet. At Banias it is 1,080 feet above sea-level. Flowing from the southern extremity of Lake Huleh, here almost on a level with the sea, it flows for 2 miles "through a waste of islets and papyrus," and then for 9 miles through a narrow gorge in a foaming torrent onward to the Sea of Galilee (q.v.).
"In the whole valley of the Jordan from the Lake Huleh to the Sea of Galilee there is not a single settled inhabitant. Along the whole eastern bank of the river and the lakes, from the base of Hermon to the ravine of Hieromax, a region of great fertility, 30 miles long by 7 or 8 wide, there are only some three inhabited villages. The western bank is almost as desolate. Ruins are numerous enough. Every mile or two is an old site of town or village, now well nigh hid beneath a dense jungle of thorns and thistles. The words of Scripture here recur to us with peculiar force: I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation...And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it...And your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate' (Lev. 26:31-34).", Dr. Porter's Handbook.
From the Sea of Galilee, at the level of 682 feet below the Mediterranean, the river flows through a long, low plain called "the region of Jordan" (Matt. 3:5), and by the modern Arabs the Ghor, or "sunken plain." This section is properly the Jordan of Scripture. Down through the midst of the "plain of Jordan" there winds a ravine varying in breadth from 200 yards to half a mile, and in depth from 40 to 150 feet. Through it the Jordan flows in a rapid, rugged, tortuous course down to the Dead Sea. The whole distance from the southern extremity of the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea is in a straight line about 65 miles, but following the windings of the river about 200 miles, during which it falls 618 feet. The total length of the Jordan from Banias is about 104 miles in a straight line, during which it falls 2,380 feet.
There are two considerable affluents which enter the river between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, both from the east. (1.) The Wady Mandhur, called the Yarmuk by the Rabbins and the Hieromax by the Greeks. It formed the boundary between Bashan and Gilead. It drains the plateau of the Hauran. (2.) The Jabbok or Wady Zerka, formerly the northern boundary of Ammon. It enters the Jordan about 20 miles north of Jericho.
The first historical notice of the Jordan is in the account of the separation of Abraham and Lot (Gen. 13:10). "Lot beheld the plain of Jordan as the garden of the Lord." Jacob crossed and recrossed "this Jordan" (32:10). The Israelites passed over it as "on dry ground" (Josh. 3:17; Ps. 114:3). Twice afterwards its waters were miraculously divided at the same spot by Elijah and Elisha (2 Kings 2:8, 14).
The Jordan is mentioned in the Old Testament about one hundred and eighty times, and in the New Testament fifteen times. The chief events in gospel history connected with it are (1) John the Baptist's ministry, when "there went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and were baptized of him in Jordan" (Matt. 3:6). (2.) Jesus also "was baptized of John in Jordan" (Mark 1:9).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the descender), the one river of Palestine, has a course of little more than 200 miles, from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the head of the Dead Sea. (136 miles in a straight line.--Schaff.) It is the river of the "great plain" of Palestine--the "descender," if not "the river of God" in the book of Psalms, at least that of his chosen people throughout their history. There were fords over against Jericho, to which point the men of Jericho pursued the spies. (Joshua 2:7) comp. Judg 3:28 Higher up where the fords or passages of Bethbarah, where Gideon lay in wait for the Midianites, (Judges 7:24) and where the men of Gilead slew the Ephraimites. ch. (Judges 12:6) These fords undoubtedly witnessed the first recorded passage of the Jordan in the Old Testament. (Genesis 32:10) Jordan was next crossed, over against Jericho, by Joshua. (Joshua 4:12,13) From their vicinity to Jerusalem the lower fords were much used. David, it is probable, passed over them in one instance to fight the Syrians. (2 Samuel 10:17; 17:22) Thus there were two customary places at which the Jordan was fordable; and it must have been at one of these, if not at both, that baptism was afterward administered by St. John and by the disciples of our Lord. Where our Lord was baptized is not stated expressly, but it was probably at the upper ford. These fords were rendered so much more precious in those days from two circumstances. First, it does not appear that there were then any bridges thrown over or boats regularly established on the Jordan; and secondly, because "Jordan overflowed all his banks all the time of harvest." (Joshua 3:15) The channel or bed of the river became brimful, so that the level of the water and of the banks was then the same. (Dr. Selah Merrill, in his book "Galilee in the Time of Christ" (1881), says, "Near Tarichaea, just below the point where the Jordan leaves the lake (of Galilee), there was (in Christ's time) a splendid bridge across the river, supported by ten piers."--ED.) The last feature which remains to be noticed in the scriptural account of the Jordan is its frequent mention as a boundary: "over Jordan," "this" and "the other side," or "beyond Jordan," were expressions as familiar to the Israelites as "across the water," "this" and "the other side of the Channel" are to English ears. In one sense indeed, that is, in so far as it was the eastern boundary of the land of Canaan, it was the eastern boundary of the promised land. (Numbers 34:12) The Jordan rises from several sources near Panium (Banias), and passes through the lakes of Merom (Huleh) and Gennesaret. The two principal features in its course are its descent and its windings. From its fountain heads to the Dead Sea it rushes down one continuous inclined plane, only broken by a series of rapids or precipitous falls. Between the Lake of Gennesaret and the Dead Sea there are 27 rapids. The depression of the Lake of Gennesaret below the level of the Mediterranean is 653 feet, and that of the Dead Sea 1316 feet. (The whole descent from its source to the Dead Sea is 3000 feet. Its width varies form 45 to 180 feet, and it is from 3 to 12 feet deep. -Schaff.) Its sinuosity is not so remarkable in the upper part of its course. The only tributaries to the Jordan below Gennesaret are the Yarmuk (Hieromax) and the Zerka (Jabbok). Not a single city ever crowned the banks of the Jordan. Still Bethshan and Jericho to the west, Gerasa, Pella and Gadara to the east of it were important cities, and caused a good deal of traffic between the two opposite banks. The physical features of the Ghor, through which the Jordan flows, are treated of under Palestina And Palestine.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the river of judgment
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 160 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 164 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 13:10
- Numbers 13:29
- Deuteronomy 1:1
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 3:28
- 1 Samuel 13:7
- 2 Samuel 2:29
- 1 Kings 2:8
- 2 Kings 2:6
- 1 Chronicles 12:15
- 2 Chronicles 4:17
- Job 40:23
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
