Ἰορδάνης
Iordanēs
Jordan
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Jordan (Ἰορδάνης) The term Ἰορδάνης (Iordanēs) is the Greek designation for Jordan, a geographical proper noun appearing 182 times throughout the biblical text. As a place name rather than a common noun with semantic depth, this lemma functions primarily as a geographical marker identifying a specific river and its associated region in the ancient Near East. The frequency of occurrence—182 instances—indicates that Jordan held considerable importance in biblical narrative and geography. However, the lexicon data provided offers only the transliteration and basic definition without detailing the specific contexts in which the term appears or how its usage may have evolved across different biblical books and time periods. To understand the full significance of this location, one would need to examine those individual occurrences within their narrative contexts. Without access to detailed usage examples or contextual analysis in the provided data, we can only note that Jordan functioned as a substantial geographical reference point in biblical literature. A complete analysis of its significance would require examination of the specific passages where it appears and the roles it plays in biblical accounts, historical narratives, and symbolic meanings within those contexts.
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Occurrences in Scripture
182 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
Psalms 42:6My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 114:3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
Psalms 114:5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
Isaiah 9:1But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Jeremiah 12:5“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
Jeremiah 49:19“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”
Jeremiah 50:44Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”
Ezekiel 47:18“The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.
Zechariah 11:3A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
Genesis 13:10Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
Genesis 13:11So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.
Genesis 32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Genesis 50:10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Numbers 32:29Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
Numbers 13:29Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
Deuteronomy 4:41Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
Numbers 22:1The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 26:3Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Numbers 26:63These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 31:12They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 32:5They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”
Numbers 32:19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”
Numbers 32:19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”
Numbers 32:21and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
Numbers 32:32We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
Numbers 33:48They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Numbers 33:49They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
Numbers 33:50Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Numbers 33:51Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, “When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Numbers 34:12The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’ ”
Numbers 34:15The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
Numbers 35:1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Numbers 35:10“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Numbers 35:14You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.
Numbers 36:13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deuteronomy 1:1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 1:5Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:29as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”
Deuteronomy 3:8We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
Deuteronomy 3:17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
Deuteronomy 3:20until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”
Deuteronomy 3:25Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”
Deuteronomy 3:27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 4:21Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
Deuteronomy 4:22but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4:46beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:47They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;