Midvash

קִישׁוֹןQîyshôwn

proper name: of wady running northwest through plain of Megiddo (Judges 4:7; Judges 4:13; Judges 5:21; Psalms 83:10; 1 Kings 18:40)

Pronunciation: kee-shone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7028

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 4:7 And I will call out Sisera, commander of Jabin’s army, along with his chariots and warriors, to the Kishon River. There I will give you victory over him.”
  • Judges 4:13 he called for all 900 of his iron chariots and all of his warriors, and they marched from Harosheth-haggoyim to the Kishon River.
  • Judges 5:21 The Kishon River swept them away— that ancient torrent, the Kishon. March on with courage, my soul!
  • 1 Kings 18:40 Then Elijah commanded, “Seize all the prophets of Baal. Don’t let a single one escape!” So the people seized them all, and Elijah took them down to the Kishon Valley and killed them there.
  • Psalms 83:9 Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).