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Strong's #2446 - Ἰορδάνης
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Jordan = "the descender"
- the one river of Palestine, has its course of little more than 200 miles (300 km), from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the head of the Dead Sea.
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Ἰορδάνης, 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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Ἰορδάνης , -ου , ὁ
(Heb. H3383),
the Jordan: Matthew 3:5, Mark 1:5, al.
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