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Lexicon :: Strong's H3405 - yᵊrēḥô

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יְרֵחוֹ
Transliteration
yᵊrēḥô
Pronunciation
yer-ee-kho'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from יָרֵחַ (H3394)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 915

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: ירחו (Strongs and Gesenius) יריחה (Strongs) יריחו (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

יְרִיחוֹ Yᵉrîychôw, yer-ee-kho'; or יְרֵחוֹ Yᵉrêchôw; or variation (1 Kings 16:34) יְרִיחֹה Yᵉrîychôh; perhaps from H3394; its month; or else from H7306; fragrant; Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine:—Jericho.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 57x

The KJV translates Strong's H3405 in the following manner: Jericho (57x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 57x
The KJV translates Strong's H3405 in the following manner: Jericho (57x).

  1. Jericho = "its moon"

    1. a city 5 miles (8 km) west of the Jordan and 7 miles (11.5 km) north of the Dead Sea and the first city conquered by the Israelites upon entering the promised land of Canaan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְרִיחוֹ Yᵉrîychôw, yer-ee-kho'; or יְרֵחוֹ Yᵉrêchôw; or variation (1 Kings 16:34) יְרִיחֹה Yᵉrîychôh; perhaps from H3394; its month; or else from H7306; fragrant; Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine:—Jericho.
STRONGS H3405: Abbreviations
יְרִיחוֺ, יְרִיחֹה, יְרֵחוֺ 57 proper name, of a location Jericho (on form see Baer on Joshua 2:1; Jeremiah 39:5 KöEinl. 49; √ and meaning dubious; according to Thes and others from רָוַח, = regio fragrans, the district abounding in palms, rose-gardens, balsam, etc.); — יְרִיחוֺ Joshua 2:1 + 27 times Joshua. (19 times J E, + 3 times D, + 6 times P), + 5 times 2 Kings 2 [2 Kings 2:4 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 2:15; 2 Kings 2:18;] יְרִחוֺ Joshua 18:21; 2 Samuel 10:5; Jeremiah 39:5; Jeremiah 52:8; יְרִחֹה 1 Kings 16:34; יְרֵחוֺ Deuteronomy 34:1 (P), Deuteronomy 34:3 (D), Numbers 22:1 (P) + 9 times P, 2 Kings 25:5; Ezra 2:34; Nehemiah 3:2; Nehemiah 7:36 + 3 times Chronicles; — Canaanite city taken by Joshua Joshua 6:1 (JE) +; having a king Joshua 2:2, Joshua 2:3; Joshua 8:2; Joshua 10:1 (all J E), Joshua 10:28, Joshua 10:30; Joshua 12:9 (all D); near Jordan, whence (יְרִיחוֺ) יַרְדֵּן יְרֵחוֺ, see יַרְדֵּן above; Mt. Nebo is described as יְרֵהוֹ על־פְּנֵי Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1 (P);
[H5899 (called עִיר הַתְּמָרִים Judges 1:16; 3:13; so in apposition Deuteronomy 34:3; 2 Chronicles 28:15)];
the adjacent plain is called בִּקְעַת יְרֵחוֺ Deuteronomy 34:3 (JE); עַרְבוֺת יְרֵחוֺ 2 Kings 25:5 = Jeremiah 39:5 = Jeremiah 52:8; יְרִיחוֺ ע׳ Joshua 4:13; Joshua 5:10 (both P); among returning exiles appear בְּנֵי יְרֵחוֺ Ezra 2:34 = Nehemiah 7:36, and among builders of wall אַנְשֵׁי יְרֵחוֺ Nehemiah 3:2 (BeRy Ryle on the passage and Ezra 2:34); — modern (E)rîḥâ; see also GASmGeogr. 266 ff.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

22:1

Deuteronomy

32:49; 34:1; 34:1; 34:3; 34:3

Joshua

2:1; 2:1; 2:2; 2:3; 4:13; 5:10; 6:1; 8:2; 10:1; 10:28; 10:30; 12:9; 18:21

2 Samuel

10:5

1 Kings

16:34

2 Kings

2:4; 2:5; 2:15; 2:18; 25:5; 25:5

Ezra

2:34; 2:34; 2:34

Nehemiah

3:2; 3:2; 7:36; 7:36

Jeremiah

39:5; 39:5; 39:5; 52:8; 52:8

H3405

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3405 matches the Hebrew יְרֵחוֹ (yᵊrēḥô),
which occurs 57 times in 53 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 22:1–Neh 3:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:1 - Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:3 - And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:63

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - These were those listed by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who listed the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:48 - And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:50 - And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:1 - Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - And Joshua the son of Nun sent[fn] two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:2 - And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:3 - Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 - When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:1 - Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:2 - And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - But Rahab the prostitute and her father’s household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the LORD be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho.
“At the cost of his firstborn shall he
lay its foundation,
and at the cost of his youngest son
shall he set up its gates.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:3 - But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction,[fn] doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 - As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:30 - And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:9 - the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:1 - The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:7 - then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:12 - On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:34 - In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:4 - Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:15 - Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:18 - And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:78

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:78 - and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:5 - and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:34 - The sons of Jericho, 345.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:2 - And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them[fn] Zaccur the son of Imri built.

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