Jordan
יַרְדֵּןStrong’s H3383yarden (yar-den)
Appears in 164 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yarden is the Hebrew word usually translated “jordan”, “jordan towards” and “from jordan”. It appears in 164 verses of the Old Testament.
“There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.”
Meaning
- Jordan = "descender"
How it's translated
- the jordan 144
- jordan 9
- of the jordan 9
- in the jordan 6
- of jordan 5
- the jordan towards 4
- and the jordan 3
- from jordan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 58
- Deuteronomy 26
- Numbers 20
- 2 Samuel 13
- Judges 11
- 2 Kings 9
17 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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 Abelmizraim, 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.
All 164 verses, by book
- Numbers 20
- 13:2922:126:326:6331:1232:532:1932:2132:2932:3233:4833:4933:5033:5134:1234:1535:135:1035:1436:13
- Deuteronomy 26
- 1:11:52:293:83:173:203:253:274:214:224:264:414:464:474:499:111:3011:3112:1027:227:427:1230:1831:231:1332:47
- Joshua 58
- 1:21:111:141:152:72:103:13:83:113:133:143:153:174:14:34:54:74:84:94:104:164:174:184:194:204:224:235:17:79:19:1012:112:713:813:2313:2713:3214:315:516:116:717:518:718:1218:1918:2019:2219:3319:3420:822:422:722:1022:1122:2523:424:824:11
- 2 Chronicles 1
- 4:17
- Job 1
- 40:23
- Isaiah 1
- 9:1
- Ezekiel 1
- 47:18
- Zechariah 1
- 11:3
Hebrew dictionary
יַרְדֵּן yarden · Jordan
Jordan = "descender" the river of Palestine running from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the Dead Sea a distance of approx 200 miles (320 km) Also named: Iordanēs (Ἰορδάνης "Jordan" G2446)
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.