Strong H3383יַרְדֵּן
Jordan
- Transliteration
- yardên
- Pronunciation
- yar-dane'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
From H3381; a descender;
{Jarden} the principal river of Palestine: - Jordan.
{Jarden} the principal river of Palestine: - Jordan.
Meaning of the name
Jordan = "descender"
Detailed definition
The Jordan River and its surrounding region played a significant role in the history of Israel, from the time of the patriarchs to the New Testament era.
In the biblical story
Jordan
A river and region, significant in Israel's history
The Jordan River and its surrounding region played a significant role in the history of Israel, from the time of the patriarchs to the New Testament era.
In the Bible
Strong H3383 appears in 164 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- jordan161
- pray1
- thereof1
- thou1
First verses
- Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
- Genesis 13:11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Genesis 32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
- Genesis 50:10And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
- Genesis 50:11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel–mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
- Numbers 13:29The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
- Numbers 22:1And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
- Numbers 26:3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- Numbers 26:63These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
- Numbers 31:12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
- Numbers 32:5Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
- Numbers 32:19For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
- Numbers 32:21And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
- Numbers 32:29And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
- Numbers 32:32We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
- Numbers 33:48And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
- Numbers 33:49And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth–jesimoth even unto Abel–shittim in the plains of Moab.
- Numbers 33:50And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
- Numbers 33:51Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
- Numbers 34:12And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.