יָרַדyârad
come or go down, descend
Pronunciation: yaw-rad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3381
Meanings
Qal: construct (Exodus 19:18; Judges 5:13; Judges 19:11)
1.
a. come or go down (Exodus 19:14; Exodus 32:1; Exodus 32:15)
b. go down (Judges 5:14; Judges 1:34; Judges 5:11)
c. go down (Ruth 3:3; Ruth 3:5; 2 Samuel 11:9)
d. go down (Genesis 42:3; Genesis 42:38; Genesis 45:9)
f. from altar (Leviticus 9:22; Judges 4:15; 1 Samuel 25:23)
g. go down (Genesis 24:16; Genesis 24:45; Exodus 2:5)
h. sink (Exodus 15:5; Jonah 2:7; Psalms 104:8)
i. go down (Genesis 37:35; Numbers 16:30; Numbers 16:33)
j. going down, in tears (Isaiah 15:3)
k. be prostrated (Haggai 2:22; Isaiah 34:7; Jeremiah 48:15)
2. descend, of divine manifestations (Exodus 19:11; Exodus 19:18; Exodus 19:20)
3. of inanimate things
f. of boundary (Joshua 16:3; Numbers 34:11; Numbers 34:12)
g. come down (Jeremiah 13:18)
Hiph`il: cause to come or go down (2 Kings 16:17; Amos 3:11; 1 Kings 2:9)
1.
a. bring down (Genesis 39:1; Genesis 45:13; Genesis 44:21)
b. send down (Ezekiel 34:26; Joel 2:23; 1 Samuel 21:14)
c. = lay prostrate, prostrate (Amos 3:11; Proverbs 21:22; Isaiah 10:13)
d. bring down (1 Samuel 2:6; 1 Kings 2:6; 1 Kings 2:9)
2. take down (1 Samuel 6:15; 2 Kings 16:17; Joshua 8:29)
3. let down (Genesis 24:18; Genesis 24:46; Genesis 44:11)
Hoph`al
1. be brought down (Genesis 39:1; 1 Samuel 30:24; Isaiah 14:11)
2. be taken down (Numbers 10:17)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 380 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 11:5 But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.
- Genesis 11:7 Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”
- Genesis 12:10 At that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner.
- Genesis 15:11 Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.
- Genesis 18:21 I am going down to see if their actions are as wicked as I have heard. If not, I want to know.”
- Genesis 24:16 Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.
See every passage
- Genesis 11:5, 11:7, 12:10, 15:11, 18:21, 24:16, 24:18, 24:45, 24:46, 26:2, 28:12, 37:25, 37:35, 38:1, 39:1, 42:2, 42:3, 42:38, 43:4, 43:5, 43:7, 43:11, 43:15, 43:20, 43:22, 44:11, 44:21, 44:23, 44:26, 44:29, 44:31, 45:9, 45:13, 46:3, 46:4
- Exodus 2:5, 3:8, 9:19, 11:8, 15:5, 19:11, 19:14, 19:18, 19:20, 19:21, 19:24, 19:25, 32:1, 32:7, 32:15, 33:5, 33:9, 34:5, 34:29
- Leviticus 9:22
- Numbers 1:51, 4:5, 10:17, 11:9, 11:17, 11:25, 12:5, 14:45, 16:30, 16:33, 20:15, 20:28, 34:11, 34:12
- Deuteronomy 1:25, 9:12, 9:15, 9:21, 10:5, 10:22, 20:20, 21:4, 26:5, 28:24, 28:43, 28:52
- Joshua 2:15, 2:18, 2:23, 3:13, 3:16, 8:29, 10:27, 15:10, 16:3, 16:7, 17:9, 18:13, 18:16, 18:17, 18:18, 24:4
- Judges 1:9, 1:34, 3:27, 3:28, 4:14, 4:15, 5:11, 5:13, 5:14, 7:4, 7:5, 7:9, 7:10, 7:11, 7:24, 9:36, 9:37, 11:37, 14:1, 14:5, 14:7, 14:10, 14:19, 15:8, 15:11, 15:12, 16:21, 16:31, 19:11
- Ruth 3:3, 3:6
- 1 Samuel 2:6, 6:15, 6:21, 9:25, 9:27, 10:5, 10:8, 13:12, 13:20, 14:36, 14:37, 15:6, 15:12, 17:8, 17:28, 19:12, 20:19, 21:13, 22:1, 23:4, 23:6, 23:8, 23:11, 23:20, 23:25, 25:1, 25:20, 25:23, 26:2, 26:6, 26:10, 29:4, 30:15, 30:16, 30:24
- 2 Samuel 5:17, 11:8, 11:9, 11:10, 11:13, 17:18, 19:16, 19:20, 19:24, 19:31, 21:15, 22:10, 22:48, 23:13, 23:20, 23:21
- 1 Kings 1:25, 1:33, 1:38, 1:53, 2:6, 2:8, 2:9, 5:9, 17:23, 18:40, 18:44, 21:16, 21:18, 22:2
- 2 Kings 1:4, 1:6, 1:9, 1:10, 1:11, 1:12, 1:14, 1:15, 1:16, 2:2, 3:12, 5:14, 6:18, 6:33, 7:17, 8:29, 9:16, 10:13, 11:19, 12:20, 13:14, 16:17, 20:11
- 1 Chronicles 7:21, 11:15, 11:22, 11:23
- 2 Chronicles 7:1, 7:3, 18:2, 20:16, 22:6, 23:20
- Nehemiah 3:15, 6:3, 9:13
- Job 7:9, 17:16, 33:24
- Psalms 7:16, 18:9, 22:29, 28:1, 30:3, 30:9, 49:17, 55:15, 55:23, 56:7, 59:11, 72:6, 78:16, 88:4, 104:8, 107:23, 107:26, 115:17, 119:136, 133:2, 133:3, 143:7, 144:5
- Proverbs 1:12, 5:5, 7:27, 18:8, 21:22, 26:22, 30:4
- Ecclesiastes 3:21
- Song of Solomon 6:2, 6:11
- Isaiah 5:14, 10:13, 14:11, 14:15, 14:19, 15:3, 30:2, 31:1, 31:4, 32:19, 34:5, 34:7, 38:8, 38:18, 42:10, 43:14, 47:1, 52:4, 55:10, 63:6, 63:14, 64:1, 64:3
- Jeremiah 9:18, 13:17, 13:18, 14:17, 18:2, 18:3, 22:1, 36:12, 48:15, 48:18, 49:16, 50:27, 51:40
- Lamentations 1:9, 1:16, 2:10, 2:18, 3:48
- Ezekiel 26:11, 26:16, 26:20, 27:29, 28:8, 30:6, 31:12, 31:14, 31:15, 31:16, 31:17, 31:18, 32:18, 32:19, 32:21, 32:24, 32:25, 32:27, 32:29, 32:30, 34:26, 47:1, 47:8
- Hosea 7:12
- Joel 2:23, 3:2
- Amos 3:11, 6:2, 9:2
- Obadiah 1:3, 1:4
- Jonah 1:3, 1:5, 2:6
- Micah 1:3, 1:12
- Haggai 2:22
- Zechariah 10:11, 11:2
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