HebrewH6939Noun

קִדְרוֹן

qid.ron

10Occurrences
H6939Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem

from H6937 (קָדַר); dusky place;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Kidron = "dark" a stream east of Jerusalem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

קִדְרוֹן appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
3
2 Kings
3
1 Kings
2
2 Samuel
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 15:13BSB

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 15:16BSB

King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 30:14BSB

They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:6BSB

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Samuel 15:23BSB

Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.