Etymology?:
perhaps from yārēaḥ יָרֵחַ ‘moon’
Roots:
ירח
רוח
yᵊrīḥō pr n loc
Jericho = "its moon"
1) a city 5 miles (8 km) west of the Jordan and 7 miles (11.5 km) north of the Dead Sea and the first city conquered by the Israelites upon entering the promised land of Canaan
Mentioned in Numbers 31:12, 33:50, 35:1, 36:13, 26:63, 26:3, 22:1, 33:48, 34:15 Deuteronomy 32:49, 34:1, 34:3 Joshua 6:25, 3:16, 10:1, 12:9, 8:2, 6:1, 2:1, 2:3, 5:13, 6:26, 7:2, 4:13, 6:2, 18:12, 24:11, 13:32, 2:2, 5:10, 9:3, 10:28, 10:30, 20:8, 16:1, 18:21, 4:19, 16:7 2 Samuel 10:5 1 Kings 16:34 2 Kings 2:5, 25:5, 2:18, 2:4, 2:15 Jeremiah 39:5, 52:8 Ezra 2:34 Nehemiah 3:2, 7:36 1 Chronicles 19:5, 6:63 2 Chronicles 28:15