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

The land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, made up of pre-1967 Israel and the occupied lands, is populated in roughly equal parts by Palestinians and Israeli Jews.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 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

We were approaching the bridge over the Jordan River.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat