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Lexicon :: Strong's H6939 - qiḏrôn

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קִדְרוֹן
Transliteration
qiḏrôn
Pronunciation
kid-rone'
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Part of Speech
proper noun with reference to a stream
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

קִדְרוֹן Qidrôwn, kid-rone'; from H6937; dusky place; Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem:—Kidron.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H6939 in the following manner: Kidron (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H6939 in the following manner: Kidron (11x).
  1. Kidron = "dark"

    1. a stream east of Jerusalem

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קִדְרוֹן Qidrôwn, kid-rone'; from H6937; dusky place; Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem:—Kidron.
STRONGS H6939: Abbreviations
קִדְרוֺן proper name of wady just east of Jerusalem (Thes. turbidus); — נַחַל ק׳ 2 Samuel 15:23; 1 Kings 2:37; usually as place for refuse 1 Kings 15:13 2 Chronicles 15:16; 2 Kings 23:6 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Chronicles 29:16; 30:14; Jeremiah 31:40; so שַׁדְמוֺת ק׳ 2 Kings 23:4; Κεδρων; compare RobPhys. Geogr, 87ff. BuhlGeogr. 93 BdPal. 3 (1898), 94.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

15:23

1 Kings

2:37; 15:13

2 Kings

23:4; 23:6; 23:12

2 Chronicles

15:16; 29:16; 30:14

Jeremiah

31:40

H6939

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6939 matches the Hebrew קִדְרוֹן (qiḏrôn),
which occurs 11 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:23 - While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people crossed over. The king also crossed the Brook Kidron, and all the people went on toward the way of the wilderness [that lies between Jerusalem and the Jordan River].
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:37 - “For on the day you leave and cross over the [fn]Brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - He also deposed his [great-grand]mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid (obscene, vulgar) image for [the goddess] Asherah. Asa cut down her horrid image, and burned it by the Brook Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 -

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, for [the goddess] Asherah, and for all the [starry] host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel [where Israel’s idolatry began].

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - Josiah brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, and burned it there, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people [who had sacrificed to it].
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The altars [dedicated to the starry host of heaven] which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD, the king tore down; and he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 -

He also removed Maacah, King Asa’s mother, from the position of queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for [the goddess] Asherah. Asa cut down her idol, crushed it, and burned it at the Brook Kidron.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and every unclean thing they found in the temple of the LORD they brought out to the courtyard of the LORDS house. Then the Levites received it to take out to the Kidron Valley [for disposal].
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:14 - They took action and removed the [pagan] altars which were in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Brook Kidron [the dumping place for the ashes of such repulsive things].
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:40 - “And the whole valley (Hinnom) of the dead bodies and [the hill] of the ashes [long dumped there from the temple sacrifices], and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It (the city) will not be uprooted or overthrown anymore to the end of the age.”
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