Bible Dictionary: Fords

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Strong's Hebrew

4569b. mabarah -- a ford, pass, passage
... 4569a, 4569b. mabarah. 4570 . a ford, pass, passage. Transliteration: mabarah
Short Definition: fords. Word Origin from abar Definition ...
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6160. arabah -- a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley ...
... a desert valley running S. from the Sea of Galilee NASB Word Usage Arabah (28),
desert (7), desert plain (2), desert plains (2), deserts (3), fords (1), plain ...
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5679. abarah -- ford
... ford. Transliteration: abarah Phonetic Spelling: (ab-aw-raw') Short Definition:
ford. Word Origin from abar Definition ford NASB Word Usage ford (1), fords (1). ...
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Library

The Voice in the Wilderness.
... When his time to speak came he came out of the wilderness to a place on the
banks of the Jordan, just above Jericho, called The Fords. ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter vi the voice in.htm

In Jericho and at Bethany - Jericho - a Guest with Zacchæus - the ...
... 11.) ONCE more, and now for the last time, were the fords of Jordan passed,
and Christ was on the soil of Judæa proper. Behind ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxiv in jericho and.htm

The Nations of the North-East
... East. The kings of Mitanni held guard over the fords of the Euphrates,
and intrigued in Palestine against the Egyptian Pharaohs. ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iv the nations of.htm

Prayer --The All-Important Essence of Earthly Worship
... The great events and crowning periods of the life of Jesus we find Him in
prayer"at the beginning of His ministry, at the fords of the Jordan, when the Holy ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/iii prayerthe all-important essence of.htm

Jesus Christ an Example of Prayer
... He is in the act of prayer when we find Him at the fords of the Jordan, when the
waters of baptism, at the hands of John the Baptist, are upon Him. ...
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The First Disciples
... his ministry of preaching and baptizing, moving northward up the Jordan valley to
Bethany, on the eastern side of the river, near one of the fords below the ...
/.../rhees/the life of jesus of nazareth/viii the first disciples.htm

A Nation's Struggle for a Home and Freedom.
... The first of the two main fords in the lower Jordan is just below the point where
the Wady Kelt enters the Jordan from the west and deposits its mass of mud ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study xii a nations struggle.htm

The Beginning of an Endless Friendship.
... of years. It led down to the river, and then along its bank through a village
scatteringly nestled by the fords of the river. The ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on service/the beginning of an endless.htm

The First Disciples: iii. Philip
... Christ did not casually stumble upon Philip, upon that morning, before they departed
from the fords of the Jordan on their short journey to Cana of Galilee. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the first disciples iii philip.htm

The Last Journey to Jerusalem.
... It was the time of the Passover Feast at Jerusalem, and as they crossed at the Fords
of Jordan and went over the Jericho plain they must have joined some of ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxxiii the last journey.htm

Thesaurus

Fords (9 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Fords (9 Occurrences). ... Judges 12:5 The Gileadites
took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. ...
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Ford (3 Occurrences)
... Mention is frequently made of the fords of the Jordan (Joshua 2:7; Judges 3:28;
12:5, 6), which must have been very numerous; about fifty perhaps. ...
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E'phraimites (9 Occurrences)
... with their villages. (See RSV). Judges 12:5 And the Gileadites took the
fords of the Jordan against the E'phraimites. And when any ...
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Ehud (12 Occurrences)
... At length Ehud, by a stratagem, put Eglon to death with a two-edged dagger a cubit
long, and routed the Moabites at the fords of the Jordan, putting 10,000 of ...
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Shibboleth (1 Occurrence)
... defeated by the Gileadites under the leadership of Jephthah, and tried to escape
by the "passages of the Jordan," the Gileadites seized the fords and would ...
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Arnon (23 Occurrences)
... A wide stretch of country thus drains into the valley by means of a great network
of smaller wadies-the "valleys of Arnon." The "fords of the Arnon" (Isaiah 16 ...
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Joshua (211 Occurrences)
... of Jericho, the frontier and fortified city which first stands in the way of an
invader from the East who proposes to cross the river by the fords near its ...
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Seized (118 Occurrences)
... he said to them, "Follow after me; for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites
into your hand." So they went down after him, and seized the fords of the ...
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Opposite (137 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Judges 3:28 He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies
the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the ...
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Kishon (6 Occurrences)
... ft. deep through the plain. It is easily crossed at the fords by those who
know how to avoid the localities of the springs. In time ...
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Bible Concordance

Fords (9 Occurrences)

Joshua 2:7 The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 3:28 He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow any man to pass over.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 12:5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. It was so, that when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No;"
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 12:6 then said they to him, "Now say'Shibboleth;'" and he said "Sibboleth;" for he couldn't manage to pronounce it right: then they laid hold of him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
(See RSV)

2 Samuel 15:28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying,'Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 16:2 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 51:32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
(See JPS NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Fords

Related Terms

Ford (3 Occurrences)

E'phraimites (9 Occurrences)

Ehud (12 Occurrences)

Shibboleth (1 Occurrence)

Arnon (23 Occurrences)

Joshua (211 Occurrences)

Seized (118 Occurrences)

Opposite (137 Occurrences)