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# יַרְדֵּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3383

**Jordan** — used 182 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jordan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3383/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַרְדֵּן: n.pr.fl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3383/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. Jordan (according to Rel Ol§ 215 c, from ירד with ֵן for orig. ַן, cf. 𝔊 ὁ Ιορδανης; = river as flowing downward, descending, then of particular stream as river κατʼ ἐξοχήν. See also Sta§ 294e (ֵן for ֶן, but name according to Sta non-Hebr.))—abs. always הַיַּר׳ in prose Gn 13:10 + 162 times; c. ה loc. הַיַּרְדֵּ֫נָה Ju 8:4 + 3 times; יַרְדֵּן only ψ 42:7 Jb 40:23; cstr. יַרְדֵּן Nu 26:3 + 11 times Nu Jos + 1 Ch 6:63;—the river of Palestine: in all periods, chiefly Hex (122 times: Gn 5 times J; Nu 20 times P, 1 times JE; Dt 26 times; Jos 24 times JE, 20 times D, 16 times P), Ju (12 times), and S (18 times); in K 13 times; Ch 7 times; elsewhere 10 times;—הַיַּרְדֵּן הַזֶּה Gn 32:11 (J), Dt 3:27; 31:2 Jos 1:2, 11; 4:22 (all D); בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Gn 50:10, 11 (J), Jos 7:7; 24:8 (both JE), + 20 times D + Ju 5:17; 10:8 1 S 31:7; P has also מֵעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Nu 32:19, and מֵע׳ לַיַּרְדֵּן v 19, 32; 35:14 Jos 14:3, also Jos 17:5 (JE), 18:7 (D), Ju 7:25 1 Ch 12:37; 26:30; in P peculiarly יַרְדֵּן יְרֵחוֹ the Jordan of (at) Jericho, with עַל Nu 26:3, 63; 31:12; 33:48, 50; 35:1; 36:13, with מֵעֵבֶר לְ Nu 22:1; 34:15 Jos 13:32; 20:8 (= 1 Ch 6:63), with מִן Jos 16:1 (E?); עֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן Is 8:23 Dt 4:49 Jos 13:27 (P); see sub עבר; מֵי הַיַּרְדֵּן Jos 3:13(×2); 4:18, 23 (all JE), 3:8; 5:1 (both D); מֵימֵי הַיַּרְדֵּן 4:7 (JE); גְּאוֹן הַיַּר׳ Je 12:5; 49:19; 50:44 Zc 11:3 (v. גאון p. 145 a, supr.); שְׂפַת הַיּר׳ 2 K 2:13; יוֹשֵׁב עַל־הַיָּם וְעַל יַד הַיַּרְדֵּן Nu 13:29 (JE; elsewhere in Nu, P); כִּכַּר הַיַּרְדֵּן the circle of Jordan, i.e. the plain about Jericho Gn 13:10, 11 (J), 1 K 7:46 2 Ch 4:17; מַעְבְּרוֹת הַיַּר׳ Ju 3:28; 12:5, 6 fords of the Jordan; אֶל־גְּלִילוֹת הַיַּרְדֵּן אֶל־עֵבֶר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל Jos 22:11, cf. v 10 (both P; v. גלילות supr. p. 165); אֶרֶץ יַרְדֵּן ψ 42:7 (without art. only here and in foll.); יָגִיחַ יַרְדֵּן אֶל־פִּיהוּ Jb 40:23 a Jordan bursteth forth into his mouth.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 61 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jordan (95); the Jordan (81); the (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 114:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.3/#tree)

הַיָּ֣ם רָ֭אָה וַיָּנֹ֑ס הַ֝יַּרְדֵּ֗ן יִסֹּ֥ב לְאָחֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* the sea it.saw and it.fled the Jordan it.turned.around to backwards

*JPS 1917:* The sea saw it, and fled; the Jordan turned backward.

[Deuteronomy 4:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.41/#tree)

אָ֣ז יַבְדִּ֤יל מֹשֶׁה֙ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ עָרִ֔ים בְּעֵ֖בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן מִזְרְחָ֖ה שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* then he.set.apart Moses three cities on the.other.side of the.Jordan rising towards.\[the\] of.\[the\].sun

*JPS 1917:* Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3383.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3383/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).