kidron · Kidron

What it means

kidron (קִדְרוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Kidron”.

A brook (dry most of the year) that runs between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives. Its name means "dark, murky."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Kidron

  Today: Kidron Valley (Wadi en-Nar), Jerusalem

  The valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, east of the city.

  David crossed it as he fled from Absalom (2 Sam 15:23). Good kings burned idolatrous objects there (2 Kgs 23:4).

  2 Samuel 15:231 Kings 2:372 Kings 23:4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Jeremiah×1

• 2 Samuel 15:23

  All the land was weeping with a loud voice as all the people crossed over; and the king crossed over the wadi Kidron, and all the people crossed over toward the road of the wilderness.

• 1 Kings 2:37

  For it will be, on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your head.”

• 1 Kings 15:13

  And also Maacah his mother he removed from being lady, because she had made a horrid image for Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 2 Kings 23:4

  The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out from the temple of YHWH all the utensils made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their dust to Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:6

  He brought out the Asherah from the house of YHWH, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the grave of the sons of the people.

• 2 Kings 23:12

  The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of YHWH, the king tore down and broke them from there, and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 15:16

  And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being lady, because she had made for Asherah a horrid image; and Asa cut down her horrid image, ground it to dust and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 29:16

  The priests went into the inner part of the house of YHWH to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of YHWH to the court of the house of YHWH; and the Levites received it to carry it out to the brook Kidron, outside.

• 2 Chronicles 30:14

  They arose and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed and threw them into the brook Kidron.

• Jeremiah 31:40

  And the whole valley of the corpses and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holiness to YHWH; it will not be uprooted or demolished anymore, forever.”

And 1 more times.