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Lexicon :: Strong's H3383 - yardēn

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יַרְדֵּן
Transliteration
yardēn
Pronunciation
yar-dane'
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Part of Speech
proper noun with reference to a river
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יַרְדֵּן Yardên, yar-dane'; from H3381; a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine:—Jordan.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 182x

The KJV translates Strong's H3383 in the following manner: Jordan (182x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 182x
The KJV translates Strong's H3383 in the following manner: Jordan (182x).

  1. Jordan = "descender"

    1. the river of Palestine running from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the Dead Sea a distance of approx 200 miles (320 km)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יַרְדֵּן Yardên, yar-dane'; from H3381; a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine:—Jordan.
STRONGS H3383: Abbreviations
יַרְדֵּן 182 proper name, of a river Jordan (according to Rel Ol§ 215 c, from ירד with ןֵ֯ for original ןַ֯, compare Greek Version of the LXX ὁ Ιορδανης; = river as flowing downward, descending, then of particular stream as river Κατ’ ἐξοχήν. See also Sta§ 294 e (ןֵ֯ for ןֶ֯, but name according to Sta non-Hebrew)) — absolute always הַיַּר׳ in prose Genesis 13:10 + 162 times; with ה locative הַיַּרְדֵּ֫נָה Judges 8:4 + 3 times; יַרְדֵּן only Psalm 42:7; Job 40:23; construct יַרְדֵּן Numbers 26:3 + 11 times Numbers Joshua + 1 Chronicles 6:63; — the river of Palestine: in all periods, chiefly Hexateuch (122 times: Genesis + 5 times J; Numbers + 20 times P, + 1 time J E; Deuteronomy + 26 times; Joshua + 34 times J E, + 20 times D, + 16 times P), Judges (12 times), and Samuel (18 times); in Kings + 13 times; Chronicles + 7 times; elsewhere + 10 times; — הַיַּרְדֵּן הַזֶּה Genesis 32:11 (J), Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 31:2; Joshua 1:2, 11; Joshua 4:22 (all D); בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Genesis 50:10, 11 (J), Joshua 7:7; Joshua 24:8 (both J E), + 20 times D + Judges 5:17; Judges 10:8; 1 Samuel 31:7; P has also מֵעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Numbers 32:19, and לַיַּרְדֵּן מֵע׳ Numbers 32:19; Numbers 32:32; Numbers 35:14; Joshua 14:3, also Joshua 17:5 (JE), Joshua 18:7 (D), Judges 7:25; 1 Chronicles 12:37; 1 Chronicles 26:30; in P peculiarly יַרְדֵּן יְרֵחוֺ the Jordan of (at) Jericho, with עַל Numbers 26:3, 63; Numbers 31:12; Numbers 33:48, 50; Numbers 35:1; Numbers 36:13, with מֵעֵבֶר לְ Numbers 22:1; Numbers 34:15; Joshua 13:32; Joshua 20:8 (= 1 Chronicles 6:63), with מִן Joshua 16:1 (E?); עֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Isaiah 8:23; Deuteronomy 4:49; Joshua 13:27 (P); see below עבר; מֵי הַיַּרְדֵּן Joshua 3:13 (twice in verse); Joshua 4:18, 23 (all J E), Joshua 3:8; Joshua 5:1 (both D); מֵימֵי הַיַּרְדֵּן Joshua 4:7 (JE); גְּאוֺן הַיַּר׳ Jeremiah 12:5; Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44; Zechariah 11:3 (see גאון above); שְׂפַת הַיּר׳ 2 Kings 2:13; יוֺשֵׁב עַלהַֿיָּם וְעַל יַד הַיַּרְדֵּן Numbers 13:29 (J E; elsewhere in Numbers, P); כִּכַּר הַיַּרְדֵּן the circle of Jordan, i.e. the plain about Jericho Genesis 13:10, 11 (J), 1 Kings 7:46; 2 Chronicles 4:17; מַעְבְּרוֺת הַיַּר׳ Judges 3:28; Judges 12:5, 6 fords of the Jordan; אֶלגְּֿגְּלִילוֺת הַיַּרְדֵּן אֶלעֵֿבֶר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל Joshua 22:11, compare Joshua 22:10 (both P; see גלילות above); אֶרֶץ יַרְדֵּן Psalm 42:7 (without article only here and in following); אֶל־פִּיהוּ יָגִּיחַיַרְדֵּן Job 40:23 a Jordan bursteth forth into his mouth.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:10; 13:10; 13:11; 32:11; 50:10; 50:11

Numbers

13:29; 22:1; 26:3; 26:3; 26:63; 31:12; 32:19; 32:19; 32:32; 33:48; 33:50; 34:15; 35:1; 35:14; 36:13

Deuteronomy

3:27; 4:49; 31:2

Joshua

1:2; 1:11; 3:8; 3:13; 4:7; 4:18; 4:22; 4:23; 5:1; 7:7; 13:27; 13:32; 14:3; 16:1; 17:5; 18:7; 20:8; 22:10; 22:11; 24:8

Judges

3:28; 5:17; 7:25; 8:4; 10:8; 12:5; 12:6

1 Samuel

31:7

1 Kings

7:46

2 Kings

2:13

1 Chronicles

6:63; 6:63; 12:37; 26:30

2 Chronicles

4:17

Job

40:23; 40:23

Psalms

42:7; 42:7

Jeremiah

12:5; 49:19; 50:44

Zechariah

11:3

H3383

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Strong's Number H3383 matches the Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardēn),
which occurs 183 times in 164 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (Jos 20:8–1Ch 12:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - Now beyond the Jordan H3383 east of Jericho, they [fn]designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain from the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - “And now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them; so now turn and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan H3383.

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Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession among their brothers westward beyond the Jordan H3383. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

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And they came to the region of the Jordan H3383 which is in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan H3383, a large altar in appearance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:11 - And the sons of Israel heard it [fn]said, “Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the [fn]entrance of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan H3383, on the side belonging to the sons of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:25 - “And Yahweh has made the Jordan H3383 a border between us and you, you sons of Reuben and sons of Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh.” So your sons may make our sons stop fearing Yahweh.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - “See, I have allotted to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan H3383 even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - ‘Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan H3383, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - ‘And you crossed the Jordan H3383 and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - Then he said to them, “Pursue them, for Yahweh has given your enemies the Moabites into your hands.” So they went down after him and captured the fords of the Jordan H3383 opposite Moab and did not allow anyone to cross.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 -

“Gilead dwelt across the Jordan H3383;

And why did Dan stay in ships?

Asher sat at the seashore,

And dwelt by its landings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 -

Now Gideon had sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down to meet Midian and capture the waters before them, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan H3383.” So all the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - Then they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from across the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:4 -

Then Gideon and the 300 men who were with him came to the Jordan H3383 and crossed over, weary yet pursuing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - And they shattered and smashed the sons of Israel [fn]that year; for eighteen years they did this to all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan H3383 [fn]in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - Then the sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan H3383 to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - Then the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan H3383; so now, return them peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - ‘So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:5 - And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan H3383 opposite Ephraim. And it happened when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Say now, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan H3383. Thus there fell at that time 42,000 of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:7 - Also some of the Hebrews crossed the Jordan H3383 into the land of Gad and Gilead. But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

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Then the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan H3383, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead. So they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:29 - But Abner and his men then went through the Arabah all that night; so they crossed the Jordan H3383, walked all morning, and came to Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:17 - And it was told to David, so he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan H3383, and came to Helam. And the Arameans arranged themselves to meet David and fought against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:22 - Then David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed the Jordan H3383; and by [fn]dawn not even one remained who had not crossed the Jordan H3383.

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Now David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan H3383, he and all the men of Israel with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:15 - The king then returned and came as far as the Jordan H3383. And Judah came to Gilgal in order to go to meet the king, to cause the king to pass over across the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - Now there were one thousand men of Benjamin with him, with Ziba the young man of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan H3383 before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:18 - Then they kept passing over the ford to cause the king’s household to pass over, and to do what was good in his sight. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to pass over the Jordan H3383.

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Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he passed over the Jordan H3383 with the king in order to send him off over the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - “Your servant would merely pass over the Jordan H3383 with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this reward?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:39 - Then all the people passed over the Jordan H3383 and the king passed over too. The king then kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:41

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why had our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and caused the king and his household and all David’s men with him to pass over the Jordan H3383?”

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So all the men of Israel went up from following David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah clung to their king, from the Jordan H3383 even to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:5 - And they crossed the Jordan H3383 and camped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward Jazer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a [fn]violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan H3383, I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:46 - On the plain of the Jordan H3383 the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:3 - “Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is [fn]east of the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:5 - So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is [fn]east of the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:6 - Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan H3383.” And he said, “As Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, I will not forsake you.” So the two of them went on.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:7 -

Now fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance, but the two of them stood by the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:13 - He also took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and returned and stood by the bank of the Jordan H3383.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 - And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan H3383 seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan H3383, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy and he was clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - “Please let us go to the Jordan H3383 and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live.” So he said, “Go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:4 - So he went with them; and they came to the Jordan H3383 and cut down trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:15 - Then they went after them to the Jordan H3383, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:33 - from the Jordan H3383 to the east toward the sunrise, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78 -

and beyond the Jordan H3383 at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan H3383, were given them, from the tribe of Reuben:

Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - These are the ones who crossed the Jordan H3383 in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks and they made all those in the valleys flee, both to the east and to the west.

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