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To go down

יָרַדStrong’s H3381

yarad (ya-rad)

Appears in 346 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yarad is the Hebrew word usually translated “went down”, “go down” and “go down of”. It appears in 346 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.”
Zechariah 10:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. To go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down(Qal) · (Hiphil) · (Hophal)
How it's translated
  • and he went down 33
  • go down 19
  • and they went down 18
  • go down of 11
  • and he came down 10
  • they went down 10
  • and it goes down 10
  • he went down 9

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 35
  • 1 Samuel 35
  • Judges 29
  • 2 Kings 23
  • Psalms 23
  • Isaiah 23

32 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 346 verses, by book
Leviticus 1
9:22
Ruth 2
3:33:6
1 Chronicles 4
7:2111:1511:2211:23
Nehemiah 3
3:156:39:13
Ecclesiastes 1
3:21
Song of Solomon 2
6:26:11
Lamentations 5
1:91:162:102:183:48
Hosea 1
7:12
Joel 2
2:233:2
Obadiah 2
1:31:4
Jonah 3
1:31:52:6
Micah 2
1:31:12
Haggai 1
2:22
Zechariah 2
10:1111:2
Hebrew dictionary

יָרַד yarad · to go down

1) to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go or come down 1a2) to sink 1a3) to be prostrated 1a4) to come down (of revelation) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to bring down 1b2) to send down 1b3) to take down 1b4) to lay prostrate 1b5) to let down 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought down 1c2) to be taken down

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.