יַרְדֵּן
Yardên · yar-dane'
Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3381 (יָרַד); a descender;
Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Jordan.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in › the seed, life continuing
The hand that works of the head, the highest of the doorway, the way in of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יַרְדֵּן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
182 occurrences · 182 OT · 0 NT · 38 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- jordan89 · 50%
- of jordan38 · 21%
- by jordan10 · 6%
- this jordan6 · 3%
- to jordan6 · 3%
- from jordan4 · 2%
- in jordan3 · 2%
- out of jordan3 · 2%
- and jordan3 · 2%
- which are by jordan1 · 1%
- also, and jordan1 · 1%
- you into jordan1 · 1%
- unto jordan1 · 1%
- for jordan1 · 1%
- was jordan1 · 1%
- at jordan1 · 1%
- was from jordan1 · 1%
- were at jordan1 · 1%
- thereof were at jordan1 · 1%
- upon jordan1 · 1%
- and unto jordan1 · 1%
- even unto jordan1 · 1%
- him over jordan1 · 1%
- with him, over jordan1 · 1%
- me at jordan1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.