Word Study · Strong's H6939 · Hebrew
קִדְרוֹן
Qidron
kid-rone'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Qidrôwn
“Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem
Rendered in the KJV as
Kidron.
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- קִדְר֔וֹן4
- קִדְרֽוֹן׃4
- קִדְר֖וֹן2
- קִדְר֜וֹן1
How it is rendered · 1
- Kidron11
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)11
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- HNpl · 11
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- 2 Kings4 of 11 · 36%
- 2 Chronicles3 of 11 · 27%
- 1 Kings2 of 11 · 18%
- 2 Samuel1 of 11 · 9%
- Jeremiah1 of 11 · 9%
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1 Kings2 occurrences
- 1 Kings 2:37קִדְר֔וֹןkidronproper noun (a name)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.”here: Kidron
- 1 Kings 15:13קִדְרֽוֹן׃kidronproper noun (a name)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.here: Kidron
2 Kings4 occurrences
- 2 Kings 23:4קִדְר֔וֹןkidronproper noun (a name)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.here: Kidron
- 2 Kings 23:6קִדְר֔וֹןkidronproper noun (a name)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.here: Kidron
- 2 Kings 23:6קִדְר֖וֹןkidronproper noun (a name)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.here: Kidron
- 2 Kings 23:12קִדְרֽוֹן׃kidronproper noun (a name)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.here: Kidron
2 Chronicles3 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 15:16קִדְרֽוֹן׃kidronproper noun (a name)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.here: Kidron
- 2 Chronicles 29:16קִדְר֖וֹןkidronproper noun (a name)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.here: Kidron
- 2 Chronicles 30:14קִדְרֽוֹן׃kidronproper noun (a name)They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.here: Kidron