Lexicon
קִדְרוֹן
qid.ron
H6939
N:N--L Hebrew

Kidron

11
Occurrences
5
Books
Hebrew
Language

qid.ron is a proper name for the place named in accounts of crossing, removal, burning, and a stated boundary.

The attested proper-noun forms designate a named place: people pass through it, objects and uncleanness are taken or thrown there, and it marks the extent of a described area.

Senses in use

  1. A named place in narrative and boundary clauses · dominant

    The forms are consistently tagged Noun · Proper. In 2 Samuel 15:23 the APB renders the king and people as passing through the "Kidron Valley"; in 2 Kings 23:6 it renders the place twice in the account of taking out, burning, and crushing the Asherah. In Jeremiah 31:40, the APB renders it as "the brook Kidron" in a boundary description.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the occurrences, the APB presents the name with varying accompanying terrain terms: "Kidron torrent," "Kidron Valley," "the torrent of Kidron," "the fields of the Kidron," and "the brook Kidron." These are renderings of whole clauses to the term.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture