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Biblical river
Answer for the clue "Biblical river ", 6 letters:
jordan
Alternative clues for the word jordan
- Mideast river
- Hamilton of the Carter White House
- His number 23 is retired by the Miami Heat even though he never played for them
- "His Airness"
- A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea
- An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea
- Amman's land
- Important biblical river
- River in an old spiritual
Word definitions for jordan in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
river in ancient Palestine; the crossing of it is symbolic of death in high-flown language as a reference to Num. xxxiii:51. The modern nation-state dates to 1921.
Usage examples of jordan.
The same pity Jordan had felt for the cheerful little waif who had saved his life and looked at him with huge, adoring eyes.
No credible firsthand witness ever appeared to support the allegation, and Jordan was probably innocent of spitting on a woman.
On the central allegation, he was convinced that Jordan had not taken cocaine.
The allegation on the tapes that Vernon Jordan was trying to silence Lewinsky with a job was the perfect link to their investigation of Jordan, whom they suspected was trying to silence Webster Hubbell by helping him get a lucrative contract with Revlon.
Jones case was specifically about Clinton allegedly asking for oral sex, why did Jordan not ask Lewinsky about oral sex?
Another theory, based on one of the apocryphal books of the Bible, is that to prevent the Babylonians from finding the Ark, the Prophet Jeremiah hid it in a cave on Mount Nebo in Jordan.
The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.
Jordan quitting its green and happy valley for the bitter waters of Asphaltites, and, in the extreme distance, the blue mountains of Moab.
But Jordan and other engineers at Stanford believed that the device might have a few practical applications and before long it became clear how stunningly correct they were - the audion was the first electronic vacuum tube, and its descendants ultimately made possible radio, television, radar, medical monitors, navigation systems and computers themselves.
Memories of the hundreds who had allowed the Jordan to cover them as they rested in the arms of the Baptist filled his mind.
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ should not have been baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it seems that Christ should rather have been baptized in the sea than in the river Jordan.
Therefore it seems unfitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it was not fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.