Jordan River

¹ Cultural  

1. A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea. John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan.

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Jordan River ² Cultural  

1. River in northern Israel, flowing south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.

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In the Bible (see also Bible), the Jordan was the scene of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.

Example Sentences

It’s created a fraught relationship with Jordan’s long-standing families and tribes hailing from the east bank of the Jordan River.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

And those places stretched across the land, from Jericho and Safed near the Jordan River in the east, to Jaffa and Haifa on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2023

Far to the south of Çatalhöyük, in the Jordan River valley east of Jerusalem, was an even older Neolithic city, Jericho.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

He devoted much of his later years to charity as board chairman of Jordan River Village, a camp serving Middle Eastern children with life-threatening diseases.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2023

They showed camels, steep cliffs, the skinny Jordan River, donkeys, and Bedouins in tents.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye