Kidron
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
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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.