Kishon
קִישׁוֹןStrong’s H7028qishon (qi-shon)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qishon is the Hebrew word usually translated “kishon”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.”
Meaning
- § Kishon = "winding"
How it's translated
- kishon 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 3
- 1 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 4:13And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
- Judges 5:21The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
- 1 Kings 18:40And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
- Psalms 83:9Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
Hebrew dictionary
קִישׁוֹן qishon · Kishon
§ Kishon = "winding" a river in central Palestine; scene of the defeat of Sisera by the Israelites in the time of the judges and the destruction of the prophets of Baal by Elijah
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.