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Lexicon :: Strong's H3405 - yᵊrēḥô

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יְרֵחוֹ
Transliteration
yᵊrēḥô
Pronunciation
yer-ee-kho'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from יָרֵחַ (H3394)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 915

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: ירחו (Strongs and Gesenius) יריחה (Strongs) יריחו (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

יְרִיחוֹ Yᵉrîychôw, yer-ee-kho'; or יְרֵחוֹ Yᵉrêchôw; or variation (1 Kings 16:34) יְרִיחֹה Yᵉrîychôh; perhaps from H3394; its month; or else from H7306; fragrant; Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine:—Jericho.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 57x

The KJV translates Strong's H3405 in the following manner: Jericho (57x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 57x
The KJV translates Strong's H3405 in the following manner: Jericho (57x).

  1. Jericho = "its moon"

    1. a city 5 miles (8 km) west of the Jordan and 7 miles (11.5 km) north of the Dead Sea and the first city conquered by the Israelites upon entering the promised land of Canaan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְרִיחוֹ Yᵉrîychôw, yer-ee-kho'; or יְרֵחוֹ Yᵉrêchôw; or variation (1 Kings 16:34) יְרִיחֹה Yᵉrîychôh; perhaps from H3394; its month; or else from H7306; fragrant; Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine:—Jericho.
STRONGS H3405: Abbreviations
יְרִיחוֺ, יְרִיחֹה, יְרֵחוֺ 57 proper name, of a location Jericho (on form see Baer on Joshua 2:1; Jeremiah 39:5 KöEinl. 49; √ and meaning dubious; according to Thes and others from רָוַח, = regio fragrans, the district abounding in palms, rose-gardens, balsam, etc.); — יְרִיחוֺ Joshua 2:1 + 27 times Joshua. (19 times J E, + 3 times D, + 6 times P), + 5 times 2 Kings 2 [2 Kings 2:4 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 2:15; 2 Kings 2:18;] יְרִחוֺ Joshua 18:21; 2 Samuel 10:5; Jeremiah 39:5; Jeremiah 52:8; יְרִחֹה 1 Kings 16:34; יְרֵחוֺ Deuteronomy 34:1 (P), Deuteronomy 34:3 (D), Numbers 22:1 (P) + 9 times P, 2 Kings 25:5; Ezra 2:34; Nehemiah 3:2; Nehemiah 7:36 + 3 times Chronicles; — Canaanite city taken by Joshua Joshua 6:1 (JE) +; having a king Joshua 2:2, Joshua 2:3; Joshua 8:2; Joshua 10:1 (all J E), Joshua 10:28, Joshua 10:30; Joshua 12:9 (all D); near Jordan, whence (יְרִיחוֺ) יַרְדֵּן יְרֵחוֺ, see יַרְדֵּן above; Mt. Nebo is described as יְרֵהוֹ על־פְּנֵי Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1 (P);
[H5899 (called עִיר הַתְּמָרִים Judges 1:16; 3:13; so in apposition Deuteronomy 34:3; 2 Chronicles 28:15)];
the adjacent plain is called בִּקְעַת יְרֵחוֺ Deuteronomy 34:3 (JE); עַרְבוֺת יְרֵחוֺ 2 Kings 25:5 = Jeremiah 39:5 = Jeremiah 52:8; יְרִיחוֺ ע׳ Joshua 4:13; Joshua 5:10 (both P); among returning exiles appear בְּנֵי יְרֵחוֺ Ezra 2:34 = Nehemiah 7:36, and among builders of wall אַנְשֵׁי יְרֵחוֺ Nehemiah 3:2 (BeRy Ryle on the passage and Ezra 2:34); — modern (E)rîḥâ; see also GASmGeogr. 266 ff.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

22:1

Deuteronomy

32:49; 34:1; 34:1; 34:3; 34:3

Joshua

2:1; 2:1; 2:2; 2:3; 4:13; 5:10; 6:1; 8:2; 10:1; 10:28; 10:30; 12:9; 18:21

2 Samuel

10:5

1 Kings

16:34

2 Kings

2:4; 2:5; 2:15; 2:18; 25:5; 25:5

Ezra

2:34; 2:34; 2:34

Nehemiah

3:2; 3:2; 7:36; 7:36

Jeremiah

39:5; 39:5; 39:5; 52:8; 52:8

H3405

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3405 matches the Hebrew יְרֵחוֹ (yᵊrēḥô),
which occurs 29 times in 26 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove[fn] to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:2 - And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men have come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:3 - So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About forty thousand prepared for war crossed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:1 - Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:2 - And the LORD said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - Then Joshua charged them at that time, saying, “Cursed be the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the country.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:3 - But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Now it came to pass when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it—as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king—and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 - On that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them[fn]—all the people who were in it. He let none remain. He also did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:30 - And the LORD also delivered it and its king into the hand of Israel; he struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - The lot fell to the children of Joseph from the Jordan, by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho through the mountains to Bethel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:7 - Then it went down from Janohah to Ataroth and Naarah,[fn] reached to Jericho, and came out at the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - Their border on the north side began at the Jordan, and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the mountains westward; it ended at the Wilderness of Beth Aven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - And on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness on the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - ‘Then you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you—also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I delivered them into your hand.
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