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title: קִדְרוֹן — Kidron · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִדְרוֹן (6939), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: Kidron. BDB 1906: n.pr. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִדְרוֹן

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«קִדְרוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kidron** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 6939 · **BDB:** קִדְרוֹן

### Glosses

of.Kidron (11)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kidron [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6939/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6939/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. of wady just E. of Jerusalem (Thes. turbidus);—נַחַל ק׳ 2 S 15:23; 1 K 2:37; usually as place for refuse 1 K 15:13 = 2 Ch 15:16; 2 K 23:6(×2), 12; 2 Ch 29:16; 30:14; Je 31:40; so שַׁדְמוֹת ק׳ 2 K 23:4; Κεδρων; cf. Rob Phys. Geogr. 87 ff. BuhlGeogr. 93 BdPal. 3 (1898), 94.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִדְרוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6939/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 30:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.30.14/)

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וַיָּקֻ֕מוּ וַיָּסִ֙ירוּ֙ אֶת־הַֽמִּזְבְּח֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְאֵ֤ת כָּל־הַֽמְקַטְּרוֹת֙ הֵסִ֔ירוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֖יכוּ לְנַ֥חַל קִדְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.arose and they.removed (et) the altars which \[were\].in Jerusalem and (et) all the.incense altars they.removed and they.threw.\[them\] to the.wadi of.Kidron

*JPS 1917:* And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

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[1 Kings 2:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.37/)

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וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בְּי֣וֹם צֵאתְךָ֗ וְעָֽבַרְתָּ֙ אֶת־נַ֣חַל קִדְר֔וֹן יָדֹ֥עַ תֵּדַ֖ע כִּ֣י מ֣וֹת תָּמ֑וּת דָּמְךָ֖ יִהְיֶ֥ה בְרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be on the.day you go.out and you.will.pass.over (et) the.wadi of.Kidron surely.(know) you.will.know (dm).that surely.(die) you.will.die blood your it.will.be on your.own head

*JPS 1917:* For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy blood shall be upon thine own head.'

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