Lexical Summary Iordanēs: the Jordan, the largest river of Pal Original Word: ἸορδάνηςTransliteration: Iordanēs Phonetic Spelling: (ee-or-dan'-ace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: the Jordan, the largest river of Pal Meaning: Jordan -- the Jordan, the largest river of Palestine Strong's Concordance Jordan. Of Hebrew origin (Yarden); the Jordanes (i.e. Jarden), a river of Palestine -- Jordan. see HEBREW Yarden Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2446: ἸορδάνηςἸορδάνης, Ιορδάνου (Buttmann, 17), ὁ (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 18, 5 a.), (יַרְדֵּן, from יָרַד to descend; for other opinions about the origin of the name see Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 626 (cf. Alex.'s Kitto under the word Jordan)), the Jordan, the largest and most celebrated river of Palestine, which has its origin in numerous torrents and small streams at the foot of Anti-Lebanon, flows at first into Lake Samochonitis (Merom so-called; (modern: el-Huleh; see BB. DD. under the word |
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