Lexicon :: Strong's H3381 - yāraḏ

Then the LORD came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans[fn] were building.

“Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

“I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to me. If not, I will find out.”

Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin ​— ​no man had been intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.

She replied, “Drink, my lord.” She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink.

“Before I had finished praying silently, there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.’

The LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you about;

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.

They sat down to eat a meal, and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah.

Now Joseph had been taken to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guards, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

“Listen,” he went on, “I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.”

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

“If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? ’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’? ”

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift ​— ​a little balsam and a little honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.

The men took this gift, double the amount of silver, and Benjamin. They immediately went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

They said, “My lord, we really did come down here the first time only to buy food.

“We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don’t know who put our silver in the bags.”

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

“Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him to me so that I can see him.’

“Then you said to your servants, ‘If your younger brother does not come down with you, you will not see me again.’

“We told him, ‘We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. If our younger brother isn’t with us, we cannot see the man.’

“If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’

“when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

“Return quickly to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

Tell my father about all my glory in Egypt and about all you have seen. And bring my father here quickly.”

God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it,

“and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey ​— ​the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

“Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.”

“All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Get out, you and all the people who follow you.[fn] After that, I will get out.” And he went out from Pharaoh’s presence fiercely angry.

The floods covered them;

they sank to the depths like a stone.

“and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

The LORD came down on Mount Sinai at the top of the mountain. Then the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up.

And the LORD replied to him, “Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or he will break out in anger against them.”

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods[fn] for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt ​— ​we don’t know what has happened to him! ”

The LORD spoke to Moses: “Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly.

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides ​— ​inscribed front and back.