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# קִדְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6939

**Kidron** — used 11 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

Kidron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6939/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִדְרוֹן: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6939/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. of wady just E. of Jerusalem (Thes. turbidus);—נַחַל ק׳ 2 S 15:23; 1 K 2:37; usually as place for refuse 1 K 15:13 = 2 Ch 15:16; 2 K 23:6(×2), 12; 2 Ch 29:16; 30:14; Je 31:40; so שַׁדְמוֹת ק׳ 2 K 23:4; Κεδρων; cf. Rob Phys. Geogr. 87 ff. BuhlGeogr. 93 BdPal. 3 (1898), 94.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kidron (11).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.14/#tree)

וַיָּקֻ֕מוּ וַיָּסִ֙ירוּ֙ אֶת־הַֽמִּזְבְּח֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְאֵ֤ת כָּל־הַֽמְקַטְּרוֹת֙ הֵסִ֔ירוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֖יכוּ לְנַ֥חַל קִדְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.arose and they.removed (et) the altars which \[were\].in Jerusalem and (et) all the.incense altars they.removed and they.threw.\[them\] to the.wadi of.Kidron

*JPS 1917:* And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

[1 Kings 2:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.37/#tree)

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בְּי֣וֹם צֵאתְךָ֗ וְעָֽבַרְתָּ֙ אֶת־נַ֣חַל קִדְר֔וֹן יָדֹ֥עַ תֵּדַ֖ע כִּ֣י מ֣וֹת תָּמ֑וּת דָּמְךָ֖ יִהְיֶ֥ה בְרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be on the.day you go.out and you.will.pass.over (et) the.wadi of.Kidron surely.(know) you.will.know (dm).that surely.(die) you.will.die blood your it.will.be on your.own head

*JPS 1917:* For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy blood shall be upon thine own head.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6939/): 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).