Jordan: meaning of the name

Jordan in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Jordan

• Jordan

Jordan in Scripture

“Jordan” appears in 179 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 13:10

  And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

• Genesis 13:11

  Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

• Genesis 32:10

  I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

• Genesis 50:10

  And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

• Genesis 50:11

  And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel–mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

• Numbers 13:29

  The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

• Numbers 22:1

  And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

• Numbers 26:3

  And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,