Jordan River
JOR`DAN (river of judgment, the descender). The chief river
of Israel ; rises in range of Anti-Lebanon, flows
southwardly expanding into Lakes Merom and Gennesareth, a
distance of two hundred miles and empties into the Dead
Sea. Its current is rapid, fords are difficult, the valley
narrow except opposite Jericho. Volume of water variable,
bre...
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jor'-dan (yarden, "flowing downward"; 'Iordanes):
1. Source:
The Jordan river proper begins at the junction of four
streams (the Bareighit, the Hasbany, the Leddan, and the
Banias), in the upper part of the plain of Lake Huleh. The
Bareighit receives its supply of water from the hills on the
West, which separate the valley from the river Litany...
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(A river in Israel)
-Empties into the Dead Sea
Jos 15:5
-Fords of
Ge 32:10; Jos 2:7; Jud 3:28; 7:24; 8:4; 10:9;
12:5,6; 2Sa
2:29; 17:22,24; 19:15,31; 1Ch 19:17
-Swelling of, at harvest time
Jos 3:15; Jer 12:5
-Swelling of, in the early spring
1Ch 12:15
-The waters of, miraculously separated for the passage
Of the Israelites
Jos 3; 4; 5...
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(the descender), the one river of Israel, has a course
of little more than 200 miles, from the roots of Anti-
Lebanon to the head of the Dead Sea. (136 miles in a
straight line. --Schaff.) It is the river of the "great
plain" of Israel --the "descender," if not "the river of
God" in the book of Psalms, at least that of his chosen
people throug...
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Heb. Yarden, "the descender;" Arab. Nahr-esh-Sheriah, "the
watering-place" the chief river of Israel. It
flows from
north to south down a deep valley in the centre of
the country.
The name descender is significant of the fact that
there is
along its whole course a descent to its banks; or it
may simply
denote the rapidity with which it "de...
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And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on
that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not
fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall
bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their
waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof
shall be for meat, and the leaf thereo...
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And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb;
and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at
the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the
heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan....
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And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the
border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children
of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages
thereof....
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And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the
waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of
Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?...
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