Lexicon Kedrón: Kidron, a brook and wadi near Jer. Original Word: Κεδρών, ὁPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Kedrón Phonetic Spelling: (ked-rone') Short Definition: Kidron Definition: Kidron, a valley near Jerusalem. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Hebrew origin QidronDefinitionKidron, a brook and wadi near Jer. NASB TranslationKidron (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2748: κέδροςκέδρος, κέδρου, ἡ (from Homer down), a cedar, a well-known tree, the wood of which is fragrant: χείμαρρος τῶν κέδρων, John 18:1 R Tr text WH (so also 2 Samuel 15:23; 1 Kings 15:13 (cf. 2:37)); τοῦ (sic) κέδρου, ibid. Tdf.; but see the following word. STRONGS NT 2748: ΚεδρώνΚεδρών, ὁ (Buttmann, 21 (19)), indeclinable (in Josephus, Κεδρών, Κεδρωνος (see below)), Cedron (or Kidron) (Hebrew קִדְרון i. e. dark, turbid), the name of a (winter-) torrent, rising near Jerusalem and flowing down through a valley of the same name (having the Matt. of Olives on the E.) into the Dead Sea: χείμαρρος τοῦ Κεδρών, John 18:1 G L Tr marginal reading, according to the more correct reading (but see WH's Appendix, at the passage); (χείμαρρος Κεδρωνος, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 1, 5; φάραγξ Κεδρωνος, ibid. 9, 7, 3; b. j. 5, 6, 1; φάραγγι, βαθεῖα ... ἡ Κεδρών ὠνομασται, ibid. 5, 2, 3). (B. D., under the word , cf. Cedron, 2; Robinson, Phys. Geogr. of the Holy Land, p. 96f.)
Strong's Kidron Of Hebrew origin (Qidrown); Cedron (i.e. Kidron), a brook near Jerusalem -- Cedron. see HEBREW Qidrown |
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