yarden · Jordan

What it means

yarden (יַרְדֵּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jordan”.

The main river of the land of Israel; it runs down from the north to the Dead Sea.

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

• Jordan

  Today: Jordan River: Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Dead Sea

  Israel's main river; it flows from Mount Hermon in the north, through the Sea of Galilee, to the Dead Sea.

  Israel crossed it on dry ground to enter the promised land (Josh 3:17). Naaman was healed in it (2 Kgs 5:14), and Jesus was immersed in it (Matt 3:13).

  Joshua 3:172 Kings 5:14Matthew 3:13Mark 1:9

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Numbers×21
• Deuteronomy×26
• Joshua×70
• Judges×12
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×16
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×9
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 13:10

  Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered (before YHWH destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of YHWH, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.

• Genesis 13:11

  So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward; and they separated, each from his brother.

• Genesis 32:10

  I am too small for all the acts of loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant; for with my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a great and very solemn lamentation; and he observed a mourning of seven days for his father.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

• Numbers 13:29

  Amalek lives in the land of the Negev; and the Hittite and the Jebusite and the Amorite live in the hill country; and the Canaanite lives by the sea and along the Jordan.”

• Numbers 22:1

  And the sons of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

• Numbers 26:3

  Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

• Numbers 26:63

  These are those counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

• Numbers 31:12

  and they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the community of the sons of Israel the captives, the plunder, and the spoil, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

• Numbers 32:5

  They said, “If we have found favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession; do not make us cross the Jordan.”

• Numbers 32:19

  For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan, to the east.”

• Numbers 32:21

  and every armed man of you crosses the Jordan before YHWH until he has dispossessed his enemies from before him,

• Numbers 32:29

  Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben cross with you the Jordan, every armed man for the war before YHWH, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

• Numbers 32:32

  We will cross over armed before YHWH into the land of Canaan, and with us shall remain the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”

• Numbers 33:48

  They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

• Numbers 33:49

  They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim, in the plains of Moab.

• Numbers 33:50

  YHWH spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

• Numbers 33:51

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

• Numbers 34:12

  and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land by its borders all around.”

• Numbers 34:15

  The two tribes and the half tribe have taken their inheritance on this side of the Jordan opposite Jericho, eastward, toward the sunrise.”

• Numbers 35:1

  YHWH spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

• Numbers 35:10

  “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

• Numbers 35:14

  Three cities you shall give beyond the Jordan, and three cities you shall give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

• Numbers 36:13

  These are the commandments and the rules that YHWH commanded through Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

• Deuteronomy 1:1

  These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah, opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

• Deuteronomy 1:5

  Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this instruction, saying:

• Deuteronomy 2:29

  just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan into the land that YHWH our Elohim is giving us.”

• Deuteronomy 3:8

  So at that time we took the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

• Deuteronomy 3:17

  and the Arabah, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

• Deuteronomy 3:20

  until YHWH gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they also take possession of the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall return, each to his possession that I have given you.”

• Deuteronomy 3:25

  Please let me cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, this good hill country and Lebanon.”

• Deuteronomy 3:27

  Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, northward, southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes, for you shall not cross this Jordan.

• Deuteronomy 4:21

  YHWH was incensed with me because of your words, and he swore that I would not cross the Jordan and that I would not enter into the good land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

• Deuteronomy 4:22

  For I am going to die in this land; I am not crossing the Jordan. But you are crossing and will take possession of this good land.

• Deuteronomy 4:26

  I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that you will surely perish quickly from the land to which you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not prolong your days on it, but you will surely be destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 4:41

  Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise,

• Deuteronomy 4:46

  beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 4:47

  They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise:

• Deuteronomy 4:49

  and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

And 142 more times.