Etymology?:
from yārad יָרַד ‘to go down’
Roots:
ירד
yardēn pr n loc
Jordan = "descender"
1) the river of Palestine running from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the Dead Sea a distance of approx 200 miles (320 km)
Mentioned in Genesis 50:10, 50:11, 13:11, 32:11, 13:10 Numbers 33:49, 32:5, 32:29, 32:32, 32:21, 31:12, 32:19, 33:50, 33:51, 35:1, 35:10, 36:13, 26:63, 26:3, 13:29, 34:12, 35:14, 22:1, 33:48, 34:15 Deuteronomy 4:26, 30:18, 27:2, 27:4, 31:13, 32:47, 4:41, 3:20, 11:30, 12:10, 4:22, 1:1, 2:29, 4:21, 31:2, 27:12, 11:31, 1:5, 3:8, 4:46, 4:47, 3:25, 3:17, 4:49, 3:27, 9:1 Joshua 7:7, 4:3, 4:5, 4:7, 4:8, 4:9, 4:20, 3:11, 3:13, 3:14, 22:4, 22:7, 19:34, 1:14, 1:15, 2:7, 18:7, 22:25, 1:2, 4:1, 4:10, 4:18, 9:1, 18:12, 18:19, 22:10, 22:11, 24:8, 24:11, 12:1, 12:7, 13:32, 23:4, 1:11, 4:23, 19:33, 3:8, 4:17, 4:22, 2:10, 5:1, 9:10, 3:15, 3:17, 4:16, 17:5, 13:8, 18:20, 20:8, 3:1, 16:1, 13:27, 19:22, 13:23, 15:5, 4:19, 14:3, 16:7 Judges 12:6, 3:28, 7:24, 8:4, 7:25, 11:13, 12:5, 10:8, 11:22, 5:17, 10:9 1 Samuel 13:7, 31:7 2 Samuel 17:24, 2:29, 17:22, 19:42, 20:2, 19:18, 24:5, 10:17, 19:16, 19:19, 19:32, 19:37, 19:40 1 Kings 7:46, 2:8, 17:3, 17:5 2 Kings 2:13, 6:2, 7:15, 5:14, 5:10, 2:6, 2:7, 10:33, 6:4 Isaiah 8:23 Jeremiah 12:5, 49:19, 50:44 Ezekiel 47:18 Zechariah 11:3 Psalms 114:3, 114:5, 42:7 Job 40:23 1 Chronicles 26:30, 19:17, 12:16, 12:38, 6:63 2 Chronicles 4:17