HebrewH3405Noun

יְרִיחוֹ

ye.ri.cho

52Occurrences
H3405Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine

or יְרֵחוֹ; or variation (1 Kings 16:34) יְרִיחֹה; perhaps from H3394 (יָרֵחַ); its month; or else from H7306 (רוּחַ); fragrant;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Jericho = "its moon" 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 Also named: Hierichō (*Ἱεριχώ *"Jericho" G2410)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

יְרִיחוֹ appears 52 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
26
Numbers
9
2 Kings
5
Deuteronomy
3
Jeremiah
2
Nehemiah
2
1 Chronicles
1
1 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 19:5BSB

When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

Deuteronomy 34:1BSB

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,

Joshua 16:1BSB

The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

Joshua 4:13BSB

About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.

Joshua 9:3BSB

But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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