yericho · Jericho

What it means

yericho (יְרִיחוֹ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jericho”.

A city near the Jordan, the first one Israel took in Canaan. The name perhaps means "its moon" or "fragrant."

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

• Jericho

  Today: Jericho (Ariha), West Bank

  A city in the Jordan valley, about 15 miles (25 km) northeast of Jerusalem and not far from the river.

  It was the first city Israel took in Canaan; its walls fell (Josh 6:20). Centuries later Jesus passed through Jericho and saved Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10).

  Joshua 6:1Joshua 6:2Luke 10:30Luke 19:1

Where it appears

• Numbers×9
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×29
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×6
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Jeremiah×2

• 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 33:48

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

• Numbers 33:50

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

• 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 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 32:49

  “Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel as a possession.

• Deuteronomy 34:1

  And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and YHWH showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan,

• Deuteronomy 34:3

  and the Negev, and the plain, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

• Joshua 2:1

  Then Joshua son of Nun sent from Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, “Go, see the land and Jericho.” So they went and came to the house of a woman, a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and they lay down there.

• Joshua 2:2

  And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Look, men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel to search out the land.”

• Joshua 2:3

  Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who came to you, who entered your house, for to search out all the land they have come.”

• Joshua 3:16

  the waters coming down from above stopped; they rose up in one heap, very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, came to an end, were cut off. And the people crossed opposite Jericho.

• Joshua 4:13

  About forty thousand armed men of the army crossed before YHWH for battle to the plains of Jericho.

• Joshua 4:19

  The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho.

• Joshua 5:10

  The sons of Israel camped at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

• Joshua 5:13

  And it came about, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and look, a man was standing in front of 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?”

• Joshua 6:1

  Now Jericho was shut up and tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in.

• Joshua 6:2

  YHWH said to Joshua, “See, I have given into your hand Jericho and its king, its mighty warriors.

• Joshua 6:25

  But Rahab the prostitute and the house of her father and all that she had, Joshua kept alive; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

• Joshua 6:26

  Joshua made them swear at that time, saying, “Cursed before YHWH be the man who rises up and builds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he shall set up its gates.”

• Joshua 7:2

  Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.

• Joshua 8:2

  And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its livestock you may plunder for yourselves. Set for yourself an ambush against the city behind it.”

• Joshua 9:3

  But the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

• Joshua 10:1

  And it came about, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and devoted it to destruction —as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king— and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

• Joshua 10:28

  And Makkedah Joshua took on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king; he devoted to destruction them and every person who was in it; he left no survivor. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:30

  And YHWH gave it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person who was in it; he left no survivor in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 12:9

  the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

• Joshua 13:32

  These are what Moses gave as an inheritance in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east.

• Joshua 16:1

  And the lot for the sons of Joseph went out from the Jordan by Jericho, to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel;

• Joshua 16:7

  and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touched Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

• Joshua 18:12

  And their border on the north side was from the Jordan, and the border went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and its ends were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

• Joshua 18:21

  And the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

• Joshua 20:8

  And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 24:11

  And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the lords of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I gave them into your hand.

• 2 Samuel 10:5

  They reported it to David, and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

• 1 Kings 16:34

  In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Joshua son of Nun.

And 17 more times.