H6939 קִדְרוֹן (Qidrôwn) kid-rone'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Kidron

Biblical Persons & Places

Kidron Kidron

A location first mentioned at 2Sa.15.23; referred to as Kidron (קִדְרוֹן), or Valley/ of Jehoshaphat (יְהוֹשָׁפָט עֵ֫מֶק), or Kidron (KJV= Kidron Valley) (κέδρος).

Strong's Definition

Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem

Derivation: from H6937 (קָדַר); dusky place;

KJV Usage: Kidron.

Outline of Biblical Usage

Kidron = "dark"

1) a stream east of Jerusalem

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2748

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

קִדְרוֹן (qid.ron) — Kidron.

§ Kidron = "dark" a stream east of Jerusalem

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

קִדְרֹון (H6939)

name · קדר

Names of Landforms | Names of Waterbodies

Kidron = river and its valley; ◄ located east of Jerusalem between the ancient city and the Mount of Olives

2SA 15:23 · 1KI 2:37 · 1KI 15:13 · 2KI 23:4 · 2KI 23:6 · 2KI 23:6 · 2KI 23:12 · 2CH 15:16 · 2CH 29:16 · 2CH 30:14 · JER 31:40

Graham S. Ogden

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

קִדְרוֹן n.pr. of wady just E. of Jerusalem base

Bible Occurrences (10)

15:23

2:37 15:13

23:4 23:6 23:12

15:16 29:16 30:14

31:40

2 Samuel 15:23

Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly... as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

1 Kings 2:37

On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure... that you will die...; your blood will be on your own head.

1 Kings 15:13

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from [her position as] queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers... to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and [there]... he burned it, ground [it] to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Kings 23:12

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 15:16

King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from [her position as] queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 29:16

So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse [it], and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took [these things] and carried [them] out to the Kidron Valley.